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New York publishes AI training data for all buildings in the city
New York City has made geographic data for building footprints of all buildings in the city publicly available through GitHub. The dataset contains precise coordinates and polygon geometry for each building, making it easy to use in mapping applications and analyses.
WHY IT MATTERS
Open, high-quality geodata is critical for training and evaluating AI models for computer vision, urban planning, and climate technology. This demonstrates how public institutions can make massive datasets available in ways that accelerate innovation.
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