Map of EVERY building? Fake news!
8This is really neat, but my back garage is NOT represented on the map. It is an actual building, but there is no dot.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/12/us/map-of-every-building-in-the-united-states.html
Are your buildings shown?
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My neighbor’s 3-car garage made it, while my 2-car did not. I guess that’s the cut-off.
@dave I’m interested in how the map was created. Seemed limited on technical explanation… something about images released from Microsoft.
My folks’ large metal shed made it, but a fairly large shed/barn with a collapsed wall did not. (nor did some grain silos) Both have been there a long time and my back garage has existed almost as long as my house, so doesn’t seem based on when the pictures were taken. Some AI guessing at what a “building” is in the pictures? I wonder if round houses made the cut?
A local geodesic dome house is NOT shown on the map, but its square garage is!
@dave @medz it says something like it is traced from satellite imagery by AI. I bet some garages/smaller structures are missing due to the POV of the satellite - maybe obscured by other structures or trees.
My 2 car is on the map, as is a neighbor’s shed.
@dave @medz I bet it comes from reCAPTCHA –
Click on every picture of a building.
From all those Fukos.
When you said “map of every building” I interpreted that to mean “floor plan of every building”
/leaving disappointed
//guess I’ll get my money out of the bank the old-fashioned way
@therealjrn Sorry. Google is trying to do that for large retail and tourist places.
@therealjrn Would be so useful for RPGs.
Damn. Doesn’t work on my phone. I just see the outline of the US with cities listed when zooming in and out.
@RiotDemon seems “ok” in the Chrome mobile browser. I have to use the +/- icons to zoom and use two fingers to drag the map around.
@medz got it to work on the Samsung browser. It still doesn’t show any buildings on chrome.
I was impressed with how accurately it mapped my U-shaped college house despite tree cover, but then I checked the Sculptured House (or as we called when I was a kid, the Jetson House) and, well, it tried I guess?
Also, I looked at my grandmother’s ranch and it somehow detected a tiny freestanding aluminum two-car carport thing, but not the huge barn that is 100 yards away from it.
@Moose I’ll get back to you, Imma having a slow seizure right now.
Pretty good level of detail at Epcot, though I did have to stretch the building map to make it fit closer.
Area 51:
phew… they missed the shed where i keep the bodies.
their database is outdated. still shows a nearby mall that was torn down at least 4 years ago…
It’s not perfect but it’s good. The outdoor umbrellas at a local restaurant all got marked as tiny circular buildings.
My house is 2 years old and it’s still not there.
It found my house, but not my back shed and clubhouse, both of which have been on the property for at least 5 years.
@PooltoyWolf you have a clubhouse?
/giphy jealous
@djslack Indeed I do! It’s a 5x8ft wooden room on 15-foot stilts, constructed by my uncle & I when I was a wee lad of 12. It has carpeting, real residential pane windows and tarred roof, air conditioning & heat, Sony Trinitron TV and matching Sony stereo system with Nintendo GameCube console, and a cot to sleep on. There’s also a two-way communication system that lets me talk to people outside the hatch, salvaged from an old boat’s VHF radio system. Entry is via a ladder into a floor hatch in one corner. I also decorate it seasonally to match the actual house, including an appropriately sized lighted Christmas tree in the window facing the street in December. It has survived three major hurricanes and shows no signs of coming apart yet. Despite me turning 30 last month, I haven’t grown up enough to stop hanging out up there. One of these days I’ll take some photos of it!
@PooltoyWolf That is awesome. Hope the ladder keeps you in climbing shape for a long time.
@2many2no It’s definitely helping! Haha