Flutterby™! : Peat map fiasco

Oh, mapping and AI? Pivot to AI: DEFRA and Natural England creates unusably wrong peat map — with AI!. Or: What happens when you use machine learning and straight down aerial photography to try to categorize things, and get a bunch of it very very wrong.

Cat Frampton on BlueSky observes":

And by “interesting” I mean “verging on the utterly bonkers”

but this map has already been used for press releases about changing peat conditions based on differences from previous more accurate mappings.