The Bing Maps team at Microsoft released a U.S.-wide vector building dataset in 2018, which includes over 125 million building footprints for all 50 states in GeoJSON format. This dataset is extracted from aerial images using deep learning object classification methods. Large-extent modelling (e.g., urban morphological analysis or ecosystem assessment models) or accuracy assessment with vector layers is highly challenging in practice. Although vector layers provide accurate geometries, their use in large-extent geospatial analysis comes at a high computational cost. We used High Performance Computing (HPC) to develop an algorithm that calculates six summary values for each cell in a raster representation of each U.S. state: (1) total footprint coverage, (2) number of unique buildings intersecting each cell, (3) number of building centroids falling inside each cell, and area of the (4) average, (5) smallest, and (6) largest area of buildings that intersect each cell. These values a ...

Building structures include parking garages, ruins, monuments, and buildings under construction along with residential, commercial, industrial, apartment, townhouses, duplexes, etc. Buildings equal to or larger than 9.29 square meters (100 square feet) are captured. Buildings are delineated around the roof line showing the building "footprint." Roof breaks and rooflines, such as between individual residences in row houses or separate spaces in office structures, are captured to partition building footprints. This includes capturing all sheds, garages, or other non-addressable buildings over 100 square feet throughout the city. Atriums, courtyards, and other “holes” in buildings created as part of demarcating the building outline are not part of the building capture. This includes construction trailers greater than 100 square feet. Memorials are delineated around a roof line showing the building "footprint."Bleachers are delineated around the base of connected sets of bleachers. Parking Garages are delineated at the perimeter of the parking garage including ramps. Parking garages sharing a common boundary with linear features must have the common segment captured once. A parking garage is only attributed as such if there is rooftop parking. Not all rooftop parking is a parking garage, however. There are structures that only have rooftop parking but serve as a business. Those are captured as buildings. Fountains are delineated around the base of fountain structures.

Footprint outlines of buildings in New York City. Please see the following link for additional documentation: https://github.com/CityOfNewYork/nyc-geo-metadata/blob/master/Metadata/Metadata_BuildingFootprints.md

For additional resources, please refer to: https://nycmaps-nyc.hub.arcgis.com/search?tags=building&type=feature%2520service%2Cfeature%2520layer

Building footprint layers are useful in preparing base maps and analysis workflows for urban planning and development. They also have use in insurance, taxation, change detection, infrastructure planning, and a variety of other applications.

Digitizing building footprints from imagery is a time-consuming task and is commonly done by digitizing features manually. Deep learning models are highly capable of learning these complex semantics and can produce superior results. Use this deep learning model to automate the tedious manual process of extracting building footprints, reducing time and effort required significantly.Using the modelFollow the guide to use the model. Before using this model, ensure that the supported deep learning libraries are installed. For more details, check Deep Learning Libraries Installer for ArcGIS. Fine-tuning the modelThis model can be fine-tuned using the Train Deep Learning Model tool. Follow the guide to fine-tune this model.Input8-bit, 3-band high-resolution (10–40 cm) imagery.OutputFeature class containing building footprints.Applicable geographiesThe model is expected to work well in the United States.Model architectureThe model uses the MaskRCNN model architecture implemented using ArcGIS API for Python.Accuracy metricsThe model has an average precision score of 0.718.Sample resultsHere are a few results from the model. To view more, see this story.

Building footprint polygons are updated weekly by ECGIS. They provide a general reference of where buildings in Eaton County are located. These are not survey-grade.

Polygon geometry displaying Building Footprints in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.Metadata

Building footprint polygons derived from 2013 LiDAR.

Data in this layer is compiled from a variety of sources. Attributes have been added to distinguish the sources."LeePA Building Footprints" are created and maintained by the Lee County Property Appraiser's GIS. The geometry and attributes are extracted from their databases and combined based on the unique building key."LeePA Condo Buildings" are created from features in the Lee County Property Appraiser's parcel fabric. The geometry and attributes are extracted from their databases and combined using a variety of methods.Other buildings have been added by Lee County GIS. These are typically mobile/manufactured homes or time shares. Most mobile/manufactured homes were created using Esri's Building Footprint Extraction deep learning package and Regularize Building Footprint geoprocessing tool from 2024 aerial imagery. Additional attributes were added by Lee County GIS.

Area layers of US, Australia, and Canada building footprints for use with GIS mapping software, databases, and web applications.

NYS Building Footprints - metadata info:The New York State building footprints service contains building footprints with address information. The footprints have address point information folded in from the Streets and Address Matching (SAM - https://gis.ny.gov/streets/) address point file. The building footprints have a field called “Address Range”, this field shows (where available) either a single address or an address range, depending on the address points that fall within the footprint. Ex: 3860 Atlantic Avenue or Ex: 32 - 34 Wheatfield Circle Building footprints in New York State are from four different sources: Microsoft, Open Data, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and Geospatial Services. The majority of the footprints are from NYSERDA, except in NYC where the primary source was Open Data. Microsoft footprints were added where the other 2 sources were missing polygons. Field Descriptions: NYSGeo Source : tells the end user if the source is NYSERDA, Microsoft, NYC Open Data, and could expand from here in the futureAddress Point Count: the number of address points that fall within that building footprintAddress Range : If an address point falls within a footprint it lists the range of those address points. Ex: if a building is on a corner of South Pearl and Beaver Street, 40 points fall on the building, and 35 are South Pearl Street it would give the range of addresses for South Pearl. We also removed sub addresses from this range, primarily apartment related. For example, in above example, it would not list 30 South Pearl, Apartment 5A, it would list 30 South Pearl.Most Common Street : the street name of the largest number of address points. In the above example, it would list “South Pearl” as the most common street since the majority of address points list it as the street. Other Streets: the list of other streets that fall within the building footprint, if any. In the above example, “Beaver Street” would be listed since address points for Beaver Street fall on the footprint but are not in the majority.County Name : County name populated from CIESINs. If not populated from CIESINs, identified by the GSMunicipality Name : Municipality name populated from CIESINs. If not populated from CIESINs, identified by the GSSource: Source where the data came from. If NYSGeo Source = NYSERDA, the data would typically list orthoimagery, LIDAR, county data, etc.Source ID: if NYSGeo Source = NYSERDA, Source ID would typically list an orthoimage or LIDAR tileSource Date: Date the footprint was created. If the source image was from 2016 orthoimagery, 2016 would be the Source Date. Description of each footprint source:NYSERDA Building footprints that were created as part of the New York State Flood Impact Decision Support Systems https://fidss.ciesin.columbia.edu/home Footprints vary in age from county to county.Microsoft Building Footprints released 6/28/2018 - vintage unknown/varies. More info on this dataset can be found at https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data.NYC Open Data - Building Footprints of New York City as a polygon feature class. Last updated 7/30/2018, downloaded on 8/6/2018. Feature Class of footprint outlines of buildings in New York City. Please see the following link for additional documentation- https://github.com/CityOfNewYork/nyc-geo-metadata/blob/master/Metadata/Metadata_BuildingFootprints.mdSpatial Reference of Source Data: UTM Zone 18, meters, NAD 83. Spatial Reference of Web Service: Spatial Reference of Web Service: WGS 1984 Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere.

This dataset shows the footprints of all structures within the City of Melbourne. A building footprint is a 2D polygon (or multi-polygon) representation of the base of a building or structure. The footprint is defined as the boundary of the structure where the walls intersect with the ground plane or podium, rather than an outline of the roof area (roofprint).

Where a building has a significant change in built form, multiple footprint polygons are ‘stacked’ vertically to define shape of the built form. This includes, and is not limited to:

• Tower
• Podium
• Setbacks/offsets

The Australian Height Datum (AHD) is the national vertical datum for Australia. The National Mapping Council adopted the AHD in May 1971 as the datum to which all vertical control mapping would be referred

The data was captured in May 2023.

An Esri File Geodatabase containing 2023 footprints for buildings in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.The features were created using orthophotography captured during the spring of 2023. It includes all identified structures with a footprint of at least 100 square feet.Please note that buildings in dense areas (such as Downtown Cleveland) may be combined with neighboring buildings to form one footprint.A hosted feature service containing this data is also available.

This dataset contains photogrammetrically compiled roof outlines of buildings. All near orthogonal corners are square. Buildings that are less than 400 square feet are not captured. Special consideration is given to garages that are less than 400 square feet and will be digitized when greater than 200 square feet. Interim rooflines, such as dormers and party walls, as well as minor structures, such as carports, decks, patios, stairs, etc., and impermanent structures, such as sheds, are not shown. Large buildings which appear to house activities that are commercial or industrial in nature are shown as commercial/industrial. Structures that appear to be primarily residential in nature, including hotels and apartment buildings are shown as residential buildings. Structures which appear to be used or owned primarily by governmental, nonprofit, religious, or charitable organizations, or which serve a public function are shown as public buildings. Structures which are closely associated with a larger building, such as a garage, are shown as an out building. Structures which cannot be clearly defined as Industrial/Commercial; Residential; Public; or Out Buildings are flagged as such for later categorization. The classification of buildings is subject to the interpretation from the aerial photography and may not reflect the building’s actual use. Buildings that have an area less than the minimum required size for data capture will occasionally be present in the Geodatabase. Buildings are not removed after they have been digitized and determined to be less than the minimum required size.

Development Notes: Data meets or exceeds map accuracy standards in effect during the spring of 1992 and updated as a result of a flyover in the spring of 2004 and 2015. Original data was derived from aerial photography flown in the spring of 1992 for the eastern half of the County and the spring of 1993 for the western half of the County. Photography was produced at a scale of 1"=1500'. Mapping was stereo digitized at a scale of 1"=200'.

Building Footprints symbolized by Feature Code to match the Community Base Map.Data updated monthly.Data refreshed every 24 hours.

This layer contains building footprints which were derived from LiDAR flown by the USGS in 2014 and provided by Arizona State University in 2017.

Access 4.7M+ high-precision building footprints across the United Kingdom, enabling advanced mapping, location analysis, and strategic decision-making. With 30+ years of data expertise, we provide clean, validated, and enriched datasets to power businesses worldwide.

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Our use cases demonstrate how our data has been beneficial and helped our customers in several key areas:

1. Gain a Competitive Edge with Smarter Mapping: Use building footprint data to analyse competitors, identify high-traffic areas, and optimize locations for maximum market impact.
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DRAKO specializes in providing Building Footprint Data, offering a unique perspective on spatial analytics and location intelligence. Our data supports businesses in understanding their environments and optimizing their strategies through precise geolocation information.

Building Footprint Data can be used to assess market opportunities, evaluate potential locations, and analyze the competitive landscape. We’re able to provide geographies as addresses, latitude and longitudes; or WKT84 Polygons. Additionally, with our rich dataset, we can provide detailed information about: Business Location, Store Location, and nearby Points of Interest (POI) and Places to ensure you have the insights necessary for informed decision-making. Moreover, we’re also able to reverse geocode data into actionable addresses for you from other geospatial data formats.

Key Features: - Comprehensive mapping of building footprints for accurate spatial analysis Business attributes for each building - Integration with Business Location Data for enhanced market analysis - Access to relevant POIs and Places Data to understand local dynamics - Customizable filters to target specific regions or business types - Able to query by Banner name, ex., Pizza Hut or Walmart - Able to Geofence using foot-print data to create Advertising Audiences using Mobile Location Data

Use Cases: - Site selection and feasibility studies - Market analysis and competitive intelligence - Urban planning and development insights - Real estate assessments and investment strategies - Location-based marketing and outreach

Data Compliance: All of our Building Footprint Data adheres to industry standards for data protection and privacy. We ensure that all data is sourced ethically and responsibly, providing accurate information without compromising user privacy.

Data Quality: DRAKO employs rigorous validation processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of our Building Footprint Data. Our quality assurance protocols include regular updates and cross-referencing with trusted data sources, ensuring that our information remains current and dependable.

Representative, computer generated building footprints for Rhode Island. Originally developed by Microsoft, these data were released by Microsoft as open source data in June 2018. Source date for these data is unknown, please see metadata for details.Original Microsoft announcement regarding availability of these data.

“Automatically Extracted Buildings” is a raw digital product in vector format created by NRCan. It consists of a single topographical feature class that delineates polygonal building footprints automatically extracted from airborne Lidar data, high-resolution optical imagery or other sources.

Building footprints in Chicago. Metadata may be viewed and downloaded here. This dataset is in a format for spatial datasets that is inherently tabular but allows for a map as a derived view. Please click the indicated link below for such a map. To export the data in either tabular or geographic format, please use the Export button on this dataset.