robosat

Why we included this project

RoboSat is a Python 3 pipeline that takes raw aerial and satellite imagery and turns it into map-ready features: buildings, roads, parking lots, even clouds. The whole workflow is covered, from downloading tiles to training a segmentation model to exporting simplified GeoJSON polygons, so the output lands in a shape GIS and mapping tools can use instead of raw masks. The OpenStreetMap diary posts written by the developers show it doing real work, including extracting building footprints from drone imagery in Tanzania, which makes it more instructive as a reference than most archived codebases. One honest caveat: Mapbox no longer maintains it, so treat it as a proven base to study and adapt rather than something to bet an active production service on.