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Overture Maps And The Daylight Distribution

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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Overture Maps Foundation and OpenStreetMap

This chapter discusses the Overture Maps Foundation and its relationship with OpenStreetMap. It explores the integration of building footprint data from various sources, the concept of the daylight distribution, and the importance of human validation in OpenStreetMap. The chapter also highlights the challenges of identifying and tracking buildings in geospatial data sets and introduces the global entity reference system (GERS) for spatial conflation.

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