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Map New Zealand buildings with the help of AI and Rapid editor
Poslao simonschaufi u 6 srpnja 2023 na jeziku EnglishHello!
This is my first blog post and it will be about AI and how to use it to map buildings in New Zealand rapidly!
Some of you might already have heard that there is a better version of the iD editor available called Rapid editor (by Facebook) which is a lot faster than iD but uses the same user interface.
The cool thing about this editor is that it enhances the map with datasets that are AI generated and are suggested to you.
I have started mapping a lot of buildings in New Zealand in the last couple of weeks and I love how fast it goes.
Since there is still a lot to do, I would like to ask you for your help.
This is the link that brings you directly to the editor with the dataset already loaded: Rapid Editor
Get started by Login, zoom in, click on a yellow marked building and press a key to accept or d key to ignore (much faster than clicking on the button on the left sidebar). Some buildings need some adjustments as the AI suggestion is not 100% accurate but in my experience in 99% it is good.
More info about Rapid Editor can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2023/04/04/rapid2/
I’m looking to hear about your mapping experience!
Rasprava
Komentar od OldManCelli u 2 kolovoza 2023 u 13:17
Hey Simon, I just added some buildings. I’m curious though, when there is an address point within the new building do you like that to be merged with the building or left as a separate address node? From what I’ve seen so far the suggested buildings look pretty legit. Happy Mapping.
Komentar od simonschaufi u 2 kolovoza 2023 u 16:15
Hey, I just map the buildings and don’t care about the address points. For easier mapping I actually hide them so I don’t clicking on the wrong thing. Sometimes the address to building mapping is not 1 to 1 as a building can also have several addresses, this is often the case for bigger buildings. That’s why I just leave them as they are and in NZ they were also imported quite often.