Weekend Reading: RoboSat, the State of Security, and the Equal Earth Map
ð° Buildings from Imagery with RoboSat
This excellent guide shows how to combine take imagery from OpenAerialMap and buildings from OpenStreetMap, and combine to train a model for automated feature extraction. It uses an open source tool from Mapbox called RoboSat combined to compare a GeoTIFF from OAM with a PBF extracts from OSM. Very cool to have a generalized tool for doing this with open data.
ð The State of Software Security in 2019
An excellent roundup (with tons of ancillary linked sources) on the state of various parts of computer security, from programming, to browsers, to social engineering.
ð The Equal Earth Map
From Tom Patterson, the Equal Earth map uses the equal earth projection to show countries with their true relative sizes. No more ginormous Russia or Africa-sized Greenland.