On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 01:37:50 +0100 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > sent from a phone > > > Am 12.01.2016 um 01:06 schrieb Dave Swarthout > > <daveswarth...@gmail.com>: > > > > Sometimes as I labor over doing these areas correctly I wonder if > > someday it will all be made obsolete. I don't know when or if it > > will happen but I have to think that some point in the future OSM > > will employ aerial imagery as does Google. Then, instead of a > > white, featureless background in areas no OSMer has "filled in" > > we'll see the earth's surface as it really is with our routable > > ways overlaid upon it. > > > if routing is all you're interested in then: yes, if you want to do > different things like analyzing particular situations or search for > things then: no ;-) A lot of stuff will be recognizable > automatically, maybe farmlands will, but a lot of other stuff will > never be automatically become available from the air, e.g. names, > shops, addresses, and lots more (maybe from streetview like photos it > will be possible in the future to deduct a lot, right now it isn't or > Google would do it ;-) ). Think Apple maps: they build automatically > impressive realistic multi-level 3D-imagery, but without a data layer > in the background that says what it IS that you see, their product > wouldn't even be worth the name "map". With all the neuronal networks > and stuff that are and that are to come, osm and the people that care > for it will still remain a valuable source that cannot be replaced by > algorithms in the midterm (never say never of course, maybe in the > future there are robots walking around collecting data ;-) ) Google is using reCaptcha to get addresses from StreetView since at least 2012 - see http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-to-decode-street-view-addresses/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
