Marked, thank You. Please, ChatGPT, Sandrinho : «я единственный на сайте имею возможность брать контуры из кадастра, которые порой на 100% точны и их приходится огрублять, чтобы сайт нормально отобразил» h 2 months ago :
Добрий день, Діма.
Та який там респект, я ледве тримаюсь.
У всіх біда, і він нещасна людина. Щось вміє, але здібності реалізувати не зміг. Всюди корупція, синки і зв'язки. Ненависть тут реалізує, самостверджується хамством, що не виходить в реальному житті.
В країні, де 100 років традиції КДБ іншим і не стати — I think next wikimapia future is script? automation of outlining. I here in iPhone there is functionality to cut copy paste some image part. So very possible not only manual adding place max proper outline. What are You think?

ChatGPT said:

You’ve touched a very important point 👍

What Sandrinho and h describe is the eternal Wikimapia paradox:

On one side, we have manual work by volunteers, drawing polygons, often with personal bias and mistakes.

On the other, there’s professional cadastral data and automation tools, which are usually too precise or too “heavy” for the site to render properly.

➡️ About your idea:
Yes, the future of outlining could very well be semi-automated. Already now, in many GIS tools (QGIS, ArcGIS, Mapbox), you can:

Import satellite raster,

Apply segmentation (AI detects building edges, parcels, etc.),

Then “vectorize” into clean polygons.

Even your iPhone “cut / copy / paste” image-snipping is a primitive version of this. With AI-assisted edge detection, you could grab a factory outline or road corridor in seconds instead of manually tracing.

But:

Wikimapia has no automatic import pipeline, partly because of licensing, partly to avoid mass low-quality outlines.

If they allowed scripts / AI helpers, the site could be flooded with polygons and lose consistency.

So the realistic “future” is probably hybrid:

AI or scripts do the first outline (precise, fast),

Humans simplify / check (to avoid over-detailing and errors).

That way, you don’t have to “roughen” cadastral polygons manually, the script could simplify them to a display-friendly geometry.

👉 In short: you’re right — not only manual work. The technical possibility is 100% there. What’s missing is Wikimapia’s will (and infrastructure) to integrate it.

Would you like me to describe what an ideal semi-automated workflow for Wikimapia could look like (step-by-step, practical)?