Facebook lends its AI powers to the OpenStreetMap community
Facebook is providing its Map With AI service to the largest open-source mapping project, OpenStreetMap.
Whereas mapping efforts from Google and Apple focus on navigating major cities, OpenStreetMap aims to ensure the smallest dirt paths are mapped.
Mapping the whole Earth is no small task: a sizeable local community helps, but it’s an impossible task manually both due to scale and often difficult to make out imagery.
In a Facebook blog post, mapping expert...