[D] Using Machine Learning to Measure Areas on Google Maps

This is a problem I have been wondering about for a while.

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Suppose I have the following screenshot from Google Maps:

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**My Question:** I want to find out a series of longitude/latitude coordinates that describe the perimeter of this red shape.

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https://preview.redd.it/sx86m0pc9ufb1.png?width=977&format=png&auto=webp&s=71e9f215d94e31be154d53535d9ebbbd27e38538

I thought of the following approach to do this:

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\- Manually create a training dataset which contains screenshots from Google Maps with red highlighted regions along with their longitude/latitude coordinates

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\- Make sure …

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