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- Comment on First 3D map covering all of Earth’s 2.75 billion buildings unveiled 1 hour ago:
Yes the headline is clickbait and misleading, this data is not usable for anything to us mortals, it’s for researchers who need very low quality data but for global calculations.
- Comment on First 3D map covering all of Earth’s 2.75 billion buildings unveiled 1 hour ago:
We utilized building footprint datasets from various sources (see Table 2), including OSM (OpenStreetMap contributors, 2025), Google Open buildings (Google Research, 2023), Microsoft Building Footprints (Microsoft, 2024), and CLSM (Shi et al., 2024). Since none of the above-mentioned footprints is complete, we also generated our own global building polygons from an updated version of GlobalBuildingMap (Zhu et al., 2024),
As I’m a frequent OSM contributor, I’m familiar with those other datasets, and they are shit. Just zoom in any river or lake near a city and you will find houses in the water, clearly grid based building are nicely dancing around, etc. The demoed areas are from OSM, and mostly drawn manually, you can see them on a lot other sources without the low quality AI gen contours, e.g.:
So I don’t really get what is the point here, they get a human made dataset, add some AI slop next to it merge them together and relicense. I’m not even sure it’s legal…
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Technology
Why here, there are relevant communities like !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !reddit@lemmy.world
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 2 months ago:
Cellebrite, not celebrity. Cellebrite is a digital forensics company from Israel, they are creating controversial spy tools for law enforcement.
- Comment on Internet standards body proposes new header field disclosing AI — will make it easier for machines to determine if AI was used on a site 2 months ago:
Piracy is also illegal in most of the countries of the world. The new id requirement for porn is also working well in some countries as I heard. And eu cookie law and gdpr were intended to be a popup on every website.
I’m really happy lawmakers thinking about the internet, I’m sure it will be better executed this time.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster 4 months ago:
It now takes Microsoft’s browser less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website for users,
I use edge only if I set up computers for others, and I don’t want to install firefox for just downloading an installer or something. You have 3 unskippable consent dialogs before you can even type the url, and the no button is on a different position on the dialogs, so you can’t click it through quickly. But I’m really happy these dialogs load more quickly, thank you microsoft for your hard work on making linux a viable alternative to more and more people.