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Edgar Lemus

Edgar Lemus

Edgar is a map-maker and civic technologist with a background in Environmental Science, Policy and Management. At the IDB, he explores strategies in public service innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Particularly, through the deployment of open software for geostatistical analysis to improve the technical capacities of local governments, bridge the geographic data gap in the region, and build climate change resiliency.

DATUM: a resource center for participatory urban transit mapping — The case of Santiago de los Caballeros

October 9, 2019 por Jordan Fischer - Patricio Zambrano Barragán - Edgar Lemus - Natalia Vidigal Coachman Leave a Comment

Growing urban populations in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) cities put an enormous pressure on transport systems, especially in sprawling cities with increasingly far-flung residents. In this context it is essential to facilitate the design of public infrastructure in an efficient and participatory way. Community mapping of urban infrastructure can play a central role. In … [Read more...] about DATUM: a resource center for participatory urban transit mapping — The case of Santiago de los Caballeros

Urban machine learning model: automatic classification of buildings and structures

August 2, 2019 por Patricio Zambrano Barragán - Jordan Fischer - Edgar Lemus 2 Comments

Open code: Building Detection

City planners often lack updated digital maps of existing buildings and structures. The Building Detection Model can automatically generate a basic map of buildings from satellite images. It uses semantic segmentation, which is the process of assigning each pixel in an image into a category; in this case, the categories are ‘building’ or ‘not building’. This allows planners to … [Read more...] about Urban machine learning model: automatic classification of buildings and structures

Open code: urban growth prediction by analyzing satellite images

July 19, 2019 por Patricio Zambrano Barragán - Jordan Fischer - Edgar Lemus 2 Comments

Open code: urban Growth Prediction

While urban growth prediction models are not new, they have historically required significant resources in time, expertise, and calculations. That’s why we have developed this open code of urban growth prediction. The model automates this process, allowing urban planners to spatially extrapolate the growth of their city under different scenarios (e.g., future population size, … [Read more...] about Open code: urban growth prediction by analyzing satellite images

OpenStreetMap Extraction tool: generating neighborhood-level maps

July 12, 2019 por Patricio Zambrano Barragán - Jordan Fischer - Edgar Lemus 2 Comments

OpenStreetMap Extraction tool

Considering the digital revolution, Latin American and Caribbean cities should be poised to generate, analyze, and disseminate urban data. Yet, all too often, our partners do not have the tools necessary for delivering urban services to informal areas, identifying and allocating lands best suited for development while protecting at-risk areas, and working with individual … [Read more...] about OpenStreetMap Extraction tool: generating neighborhood-level maps

OpenMapKit: create and systematize surveys in the field

July 5, 2019 por Patricio Zambrano Barragán - Jordan Fischer - Edgar Lemus Leave a Comment

OpenMapKit: create and systematize surveys in the field

Paper records are still quite common for field data collection in many housing agencies, where the infrastructure required to create, implement, manage and maintain survey data often includes paywalls or high levels of technical expertise. OpenMapKit solves one of the most immediate needs for government agencies to collect and manage data from the field, incorporating automatic … [Read more...] about OpenMapKit: create and systematize surveys in the field

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