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by lostfocus 1285 days ago
I'm honestly a bit baffled - what do they actually do?
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tppiotrowski 1285 days ago
OpenStreetMap collects data via volunteers entering information about their neighborhoods but there is also government generated data from surveys so I think they aim to automate combining the two in a unified open source format.
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kevinventullo 1285 days ago
Not to mention algorithmically generated data, e.g. ML on satellite imagery, which some folks in the OSM community are vehemently opposed to.
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