Facebook releases AI-powered tools to map the world

Get the Full StoryFacebook today released a bunch of machine learning-powered tools to help create maps of the world. The company s tools, called Map with AI, will help the community-based OpenStreetMap organization to create crowd-sourced maps easily. The social network spent two years in developing these tools, and is now making it available to OpenStreetMap community members. The program s current marquee tool, called RapidID, lets you identify, add, and edit roads in a pinch. Here s how RapidID works. It takes satellite images from commercially available public images from Maxar, a US-based space tech company. Then, its AI model predicts the presence of roads in a given image This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Facebook

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