Sentinel 1, the prequel to the other thing that also contends with “clouds”. File under: When microtargeting ads confuse geo and software / IT.
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Locality (blue polygons and blue dots) and neighbourhood (orange lines and orange dots) coverage in and around Chandigarh. Note some neighbourhood polygons in Chandigarh were curated pre-Karmashapes import and have been retained.
Locality (blue polygons and blue dots) and neighbourhood (orange lines and orange dots) coverage northwest of Dehradun
Let’s take a look at the locality and neighbourhood coverage now available in WOF:
Locality (blue polygons and blue dots) and neighbourhood (orange lines and orange dots) coverage along the northern Kerala coast
17) Who’s On First’s open license (CC-BY attribution) means you’re free to use the data for commercial purposes, including derivative rights, as long as you credit the project and our sources.
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16) WOF holds hands with 60+ datasets via linked unique identifiers to allow crosswalk across 6.5M feature-level concordances.
14) Internationalized with disputed territory boundaries for global audiences and compliance with local regulations (label points for the polygons shown in the map)
13) Population values, min_zoom ranking, and polygon label centroids enable sophisticated map designs with beautiful and informative cartography
12) Names are localized into 494 languages, using internet standard language codes. The most common language in Who’s On First is English, followed by Chinese, and French. Rounding out the top 10 in ranked order are Russian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, and Polish.
11) WOF rates 87 countries w/ good to great polygon coverage at locality & parent administrative subdivisions in the A-AA-AAA-AAAA range. We rate 177 countries that are mostly limited to point locality coverage and basic polygon administrative subdivisions in the B-BB-BBB-BBBB range.