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jremillard / images-to-osm

Use Mask R-CNN/Keras/TensorFlow and OSM to find features in satellite images for fun.
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Microsoft/Bing Satellite Image License #2

Closed jremillard closed 6 years ago

jremillard commented 6 years ago

Microsoft has contacted me. They are not sure if they are allowed to grant permission for this project to use the bing satellite images. The Microsoft legal team is reviewing it. I may need to use a different source for the images, or change the code to not cache the tiles.

pnoll1 commented 6 years ago

The bing wiki page has a license that describes what you're allowed to use the imagery for, although there may be a more recent one. Also scan aerial does similar processing to you to map waterways using the python imaging library instead of a neural net.

Other possible sources

The other possible sources I'm aware of are DigitalGlobe, Esri and Mapbox which license the images to be used for tracing elements and uploading them to openstreetmap. Their imagery is typically not nearly as detailed, speaking from a US perspective.

jremillard commented 6 years ago

Mapbox has agreed to allow the mapbox satellite images to be used with this project. I will be adding support for this next and restarting the project.

drewbo commented 6 years ago

@jremillard if you are restarting using Mapbox satellite, let me know if https://github.com/developmentseed/label-maker could be of some help. Happy to discuss it if you have any questions

jremillard commented 6 years ago

I am restarting with Mapbox. I just looked at label-maker. I didn't know about it previously, thank you for the pointer. It is pretty interesting. I see two problems with it. First, is that doesn't handle features spilling over tile boundaries. My current code handles this correctly for Bing. Secondly, I don't see a export method for the instance segmentation that Mask R-CNN needs.

drewbo commented 6 years ago

@jremillard thanks for the feedback. The tile boundary problem has an open ticket but we haven't settled on how to resolve yet. Could you link to your approach? For the second issue, I don't think we'll add direct Mask R-CNN support but we have been working up some auxiliary scripts to support other output formats. We would definitely be interested in adding support for Mask R-CNN in that fashion

jharpster commented 6 years ago

@jremillard The legal team at Microsoft has reviewed this particular scenario and determined that it is consistent with the current terms of the imagery as it relates to contributing to OSM. You're in good hands collaborating with @drewbo and Mapbox but feel free to use the Bing imagery if it is useful in the areas you're working in.

jremillard commented 6 years ago

@jharpster Fantastic!