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Ariel Noyman retweeted
21 Nov 2025
Pretty cool. Ariel Noyman at MIT Media Lab adapted my Nano Banana Pro prompts to map "urban informality" -- complex settlements that are notoriously difficult to map manually.
"What used to take hours (days) of manual work can now be distilled into minutes, with results that are on par with domain specific models."
The bitter lesson is bittersweet!
20 Nov 2025
Nano Banana Pro is a really good cartographer. Used it to turn low res satellite imagery into a detailed hand drawn map and vector HD map.
Pretty wild how well it segments everything and even recovers paths/roads hidden under tree cover.
Looks way more detailed than the current google basemap which is pretty sparse in countries like India. Included both in video for comparison.
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