[Talk-us] US building footprint data

Jmapb jmapb at gmx.com
Thu Jun 28 20:25:08 UTC 2018


Thanks Jubal, this looks like fantastic no-nonsense work. Seems like it 
might be wise to wait until after the Milan conference to see if a 
recommended workflow will emerge to begin putting these footprints to use.

Any plans to publish data for other countries? How about quarterly diffs?

jmb


On 6/28/2018 12:37 PM, Jubal Harpster wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Today Microsoft released ~125M computer generated building footprints. 
> You can read about the release on the Bing Maps Blog 
> (https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data)
>
> There is additional technical detail on the creation process and links 
> to directly download the data in geojson format in the public git repo 
> here (https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints)
>
> Enjoy.
>
> -Jubal
>
>
>
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