Bunting Labs (YC S22)

Since we launched our AI Vectorizer for #QGIS last Friday, we've served over 10,000 autocompletion requests from 80 different countries 😎 Since how to use the plugin has changed, we wanted to show the tips and tricks our users learned to digitize 2-3x faster than by hand. Here, Michael Egan walks through how to get started with the AI and get the best performance out of it:

Je suis ravie de partager ma récente découverte ici sur LinkedIn : l'extension « Bunting Labs AI Vectorizer » développée par Bunting Labs (YC S22). Cette extension innovante facilite grandement la vectorisation de cartes grâce à l'intelligence artificielle. 🎯 Mes remarques : ✅ Les résultats ont été globalement satisfaisants. 🌟 Dans certains cas, le plugin a fonctionné bien, offrant une vectorisation presque automatique et d'une grande précision. 🤔 Cependant, dans d’autres cas, il a rencontré quelques difficultés, notamment avec les changements de direction et certaines entités complexes. Dans l'ensemble, je suis très impressionnée par les capacités de ce plugin et je recommande vivement à tous ceux qui travaillent avec QGIS de l'essayer. 📹 Voici une vidéo que j'ai réalisée pour partager mon expérience avec ce plugin. https://lnkd.in/d9jd5htF Un grand merci à l'équipe de Bunting Labs pour cette innovation ! 🚀 N'hésitez pas à partager vos expériences et vos retours si vous avez également essayé cette extension. #GIS #QGIS #Vectorization #ArtificialIntelligence #BuntingLabs #Innovation #Geospatial

2,960 AI experiments later, our #QGIS AI Vectorizer plugin is 3x faster than before. How’d we do it? Brendan Ashworth has created an AI that can see all possible vectorizations of your map 🗺️. By training on every style of map we could find for 50+ days on GPUs, our AI Vectorizer now knows where your vectorization is going before you do. The biggest change is your cursor location now shows the AI what you want to digitize. Because the plugin has vectorized all possible paths, clicking is more like intelligent snapping to the feature. This radical redesign fixes all of the problems of the last version: users no longer need to correct the AI’s mistakes before continuing, it has been trained extensively on aerial imagery and geologic maps, and we have increased speed by deploying our AI on servers across the world. To use the new plugin, place two vertices along the feature you want to digitize and then move your cursor to where you want the AI to go. This lets you pick between diverging paths and digitize up to confusing parts where you can manually intervene using the shift key. If you want to try this out, just update your plugin in the QGIS Plugins window and restart QGIS, or search Bunting Labs to download it. #Geospatial #GeoAI #GIS

I'm excited to go to Slovakia this September to listen to Brendan Ashworth speak at the QGIS User Conference 🇸🇰 If you'll be there, let me know!

Thank you to the 16,000+ downloads in #QGIS for our AI Vectorizer! We often get asked for tips on how to get the most out of the plugin, so I wanted to make a video to address what Brendan Ashworth and I think are the most important things to think about when using it: 🔎 1. Make sure that you are zoomed so that the feature you are digitizing is about 3 pixels wide 🎯 2. Make sure that your first completion is entirely on the line or polygon you want to digitize ❌ 3. If the AI made a mistake, hold down shift to cut the line and continue to hold it down to make manual completions. Let go to make more AI completions 📚 4. The top visible layer is what the AI will vectorize if your images overlap

I had an amazing conversation with Daniel O'Donohue about building custom AI models for #GIS. Here are my favorite parts of this podcast: ⏳ 4:41 Why build the MVP in QGIS? ⏳ 14:44 How does an AI Vectorizer actually work? ⏳ 19:55 What would AI georeferencing look like? ⌛ 25:40 When is a machine learning model "good enough"? ⌛35:30 What's the future of AI x desktop tools look like?

We're excited to be a Phase 2 winner of the US Census Bureau's Supply Chain Challenge! Our proposal of using artificial intelligence to monitor and detect changes in imagery of critical sites will hopefully allow the Census to provide more accurate and real-time warnings of supply chain disruptions. And congratulations to the other winners of the challenge! #supplychain #geoai

When you download our plugin in QGIS you'll automatically be on 1.10, or if you already installed it there's an option to update in the manage plugins window Give the new zoom a try and let us know what you think!

😳 Now THIS is amazing - automated AI map tracing in QGIS. Shout out to Michael Egan of Bunting Labs (YC S22) for building this amazing plugin (link in comments). 👌🏽 This is an absolutely perfect use of AI in geospatial. It takes a very manual and time-consuming task and passes that off to AI while still being able to have human intervention when needed. Amazing work! #gis #moderngis #geoai #geospatial #qgis #gischat #arcgis #esri #spatialanalysis #ai #geography #maps

We're excited to be launching our new QGIS plugin that autocompletes features you trace in QGIS! Thank you to everyone who we've worked with along the way to building this