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HighResolutionSettlementLayer

Meta has built accurate population density maps using satellite imagery. Meta also provides a variety of open source tools we used to build them in order to assist others working in this field. Learn more and download population estimates here https//dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/high-resolution-population-density-maps.

Install / Use

/learn @facebookresearch/HighResolutionSettlementLayer
About this skill

Quality Score

0/100

Supported Platforms

Universal

README

Examples

Schema for CSV training data labels:

  1. id: A unique sequential non-negative integer identifier for the data point.
  2. quadkey: A zoom 15 Bing Tile quadkey containing the center of the image.
  3. latitude: The latitude of the center of the image in the WGS 84 datum.
  4. longitude: The longitude of the center of the image in the WGS 84 datum.
  5. num_true: Number of true votes, i.e., votes that this image contains a building.
  6. num_false: Number of false votes, i.e., votes that this image does not contain a building.
  7. num_unsure: Number of unsure votes, i.e., votes that this image is unclear whether it contains a building.
  8. num_error: Number of error votes, i.e., votes that this image has an error or image artifact.

Requirements

HighResolutionSettlementLayer requires or works with

  • Mac OS X or Linux
  • and presently only requires Gzip to unpack and ability to access CSV (comma seperated value) files

Building HighResolutionSettlementLayer

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Installing HighResolutionSettlementLayer

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How HighResolutionSettlementLayer works

This repo contains a selection from the training, validation, and test data for the [High Resolution Settlement Layer] (https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/high-resolution-population-density-maps) dataset. The current data consists of 9869460 data points with location and rater scores.

Full documentation

The file labels.csv.gz is a Gzip compressed file; to uncompress on unix-like systems run

$ gunzip labels.csv.gz

More information about Gzip, including how to decompress on other systems, can be found at https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ .

This will produce a file labels.csv, which is a CSV file with header and the schema provided in the Examples section above or in the README file in more detail.

Join the HighResolutionSettlementLayer community

  • Website: https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/high-resolution-population-density-maps
  • Facebook page: NA
  • Mailing list: NA
  • irc: NA

See the CONTRIBUTING file for how to help out.

License

HighResolutionSettlementLayer is MIT licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.

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Security Score

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