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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Michael,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Not sure what the current state of the art is in opensource AI for building recognition from aerial imagery is, but I think you can at least get started with Orfeo Toolbox, and or TensorFlow. Orfeo can be used in QGIS but you have to download and install it separately.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As you are a JOSM user, you may already be in the know, but just in case I will remind you:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If you do go this route and intend to bulk upload to OSM please read the OSM Wiki pages for automated edits.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">and imports:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Thayer</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, August 26, 2023 at 03:00:13 PM EDT, qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org <qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: <br><div dir="ltr">> Hi, I'm looking for a way to extract building footprints from satellite<br></div><div dir="ltr">> images.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> I already make scenery from the satellite images for my flight simulator<br></div><div dir="ltr">> using free software called AeroScenery.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> I can also make buildings, trees, night lights from OSM data using free<br></div><div dir="ltr">> software called ScenProc. However there are many areas that do not have<br></div><div dir="ltr">> sufficient OSM data in some cases missing hundreds of buildings. In the<br></div><div dir="ltr">> past I have spent many weeks hand editing using JOSM to replace missing<br></div><div dir="ltr">> buildings.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Is there a way using QGIS with plugins to automate this process please?<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div>> Kindest regards, Michael.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><br></div></div>
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