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OpenBuildingMap
2.7B building footprints along with height, usage and floorspace metadata. Source: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06132-z
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- building footprints · building height · building usage · building floorspace metadata
- Coverage llm-inferred
- Global
- Access docs-verified
- Public visibility on Source Cooperative; licence: see product README (not stated in docs)
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- FRA exposure screening: building counts and usage from footprints within a study area · Drainage strategy: estimate roofed (impermeable) area from building footprints · Flood-damage or planning baselines using building height and floorspace attributes
- Audience llm-inferred
- GIS analysts · flood consultants · drainage engineers · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Licence not stated in docs; see product README · No formats, spatial resolution or accuracy/validation information in docs · Docs show last update on 4 Nov 2025; check currency before use · Height, usage and floorspace attributes are derived from a published dataset; their accuracy is not described in docs
- Licence
- see product README
- Authentication
- Public; anonymous HTTPS/S3 access via data.source.coop
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 14/10/2026
- Page health
- page reachable
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Verified via Source Cooperative API /api/v1/products/tge-labs (public product, updated 2025-11-04).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: manual-2026-10-15 (source.coop)