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Facebook Extended Its Map With AI Tool Suite to OpenStreetMap

The social network is using artificial intelligence to predict road networks

Facebook AI researchers and engineers were able to add over 300,000 miles of missing roads in ThailandFacebook
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By David Cohen

July 23, 2019

Facebook has been using artificial intelligence to predict road networks and create maps via commercially available high-resolution satellite imagery, and the social network is making its model available more widely.

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David Cohen

David Cohen is editor of Adweek's Social Pro Daily.

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