Comment by akavel

As to humanitarian use for OSM and how anyone can contribute by small tasks (I've tried it myself, was surprisingly exciting), enabling faster and more accurate response and travel to people in need, see:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager

As to work in progress on detection of features and automatic conversion to maps, I've recently found the below website:

https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/07/15/mapillary-osm.h...