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Re:Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision by Vinnl on Saturday March 22, 2025 @04:35PM (#43448429)
"plow forward" and implying they didn't consider their actions and their effects seem ungenerous, given the list of precautions in the comment you're replying to.

You can disagree on whether the measures are effective, of course, but they're clearly not thoughtless.

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Re:Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision by benatkin on Saturday March 22, 2025 @06:09PM (#43449041)
It was the equivalent of vibe coding:

> The polygons the algorithm had drawn were consistently of poor quality with stray nodes and nodes far outside the pool boundaries, and the imports hadn't been discussed with local communities.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448498

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Re:Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision by Vinnl on Sunday March 23, 2025 @02:41PM (#43454842)
That too seems an ungenerous characterisation, and the GP could not have deduced that from the OP. I'm glad the author is constructively incorporating criticism and working to turn this into a useful tool that OSM users will benefit from, because they wouldn't have been the first to get overly defensive after their work was interpreted in the worst light possible.
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