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Barbados Lands and Surveys Plot Automation Challenge

Helping Barbados
$10 000 USD
Completed (5 months ago)
Computer Vision
Geospatial Data
Optical Character Recognition
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Aug 01, 25
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Oct 19, 25
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Brainiac
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Platform · 29 Oct 2025, 12:45 · 9

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Joseph_gitau
African center for data science and analytics

This has been an incredibly challenging competition, and honestly, the hardest part has been the lack of communication. We were often left in the dark right when we needed feedback the most.

It's just so disheartening to feel like all the effort, late nights, and resources we poured into this are now going to waste because of these last-minute changes.

It simply feels unfair to everyone who put their trust in the process and followed the original instructions. Clear and timely communication really would have made all the difference.

29 Oct 2025, 12:56
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Brainiac

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nymfree

with you here. communication would have avoided all this

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Koleshjr
Multimedia university of kenya

Do you mean:

Zindi has announced that solutions which do produce/predict geo-coordinates will be disqualified during the final review — despite the fact that:

or they are disqualifying the ones that predict pixel coordinates? Because your discussion is a bit conflicting?

29 Oct 2025, 13:18
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Brainiac

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Koleshjr
Multimedia university of kenya

Oh I understand now. Damn how are you even supposed to predict geo-cordinates in the first place. This looks like a really tough problem now. Sorry for your experiences

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Brainiac

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Where did you read about these changes, could you show us this new rule?

30 Oct 2025, 16:30
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Joseph_gitau
African center for data science and analytics

Might be a side communication from zindi based off the text "The original challenge did not mention or require geo-coordinates outputs." So maybe there is a new challenge but with the new rule.