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FB Engineering is getting there, actually. https://code.facebook.com/posts/1676452492623525/connecting-the-world-with-better-maps/ https://code.facebook.com/pos
by Piskvorrr 10y ago
FB Engineering is getting there, actually. https://code.facebook.com/posts/1676452492623525/connecting-the-world-with-better-maps/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/1676452492623525/connecting-... - of course, they're currently mapping buildings, which is an order of magnitude simpler task.
As far as "someone manually checking" - you'd need that in any case, but it is quicker than someone manually doing all the tracing work.
- maxerickson 10y agoFacebook is working on roads too: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=57942 https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=57942 They also had an earlier attempt that was pretty messy. The identification of roads works pretty good. Separating roads out into main roads and secondary roads and access roads works less well.