Facebook empowers OpenStreetMap community with AI-enhanced tools

If we're going to map the sphere, we aren't going to do it with ever-greater volumes of elbow grease. There is solely a great deal of artwork to do. AI and computer vision are helpful assistants in this process, alternatively, as a Fb effort has confirmed, laying down numerous masses of miles of up to now unmapp…
If we're going to map the world, we're not going to do it with ever-greater volumes of elbow grease. There's just too much work to do. AI and computer vision are helpful assistants in this task, however, as a Facebook effort has shown, laying down hundreds of thousands of miles of previously unmapp…

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