Overture Foundation Building Footprints¶

Note

This dataset will be updated in batches owing to the extent and size of the feature collections. These will be made available primarily in the insiders only dataset while they are ingested and tested. Once all areas have been ingested this will be made available to all users of the community catalog

The Overture Foundation's building dataset is part of the 2024-07-22.0 data release and v1.0.0 of the schema, now available. The base, buildings, divisions, and places themes have reached General Availability (GA). The transportation theme remains in beta, and users can anticipate additional breaking changes to the transportation schema. Currently, the dataset only includes data extracted for the CONUS region.

Overview¶

The Overture Maps buildings theme describes human-made structures with roofs or interior spaces that are permanently or semi-permanently in one place (source: OSM building definition). The theme includes two feature types:

Building: The most basic form of a building feature. The geometry is expected to be the most outer footprint—roofprint if traced from satellite/aerial imagery—of a building. Buildings have a boolean attribute has_parts that describes whether there are any associated building parts. (Currently only building layers are being added to the catalog)
Building Part: A single part of a building. Building parts may share the same properties as buildings. A building part is associated with a parent building via a building_id.

Data Sources¶

The Overture buildings dataset is a combination of the following open building datasets:

Source	Type	Conflation Priority	Count
OpenStreetMap	Community-contributed	1	~600 Million
Esri Community Maps	Community-contributed	2	~14 Million
Google Open Buildings	ML-derived roofprints (>90% precision)	3	~400 Million
Microsoft	ML-derived roofprints	4	~600 Million
Google Open Buildings	ML-derived roofprints (<90% precision)	5	~700 Million

overture_buildings

Earth Engine Snippet¶

var buildings = ee.FeatureCollection('projects/sat-io/open-datasets/OVERTURE/BUILDINGS/CONUS-EXTRACT');
Map.centerObject(buildings.first(),12)
Map.addLayer(buildings, {}, 'Buildings CONUS Extract');

Sample Code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=users/sat-io/awesome-gee-catalog-examples:global-utilities-assets-amenities/OVERTURE-BUILDINGS-EXTRACT

License¶

The data from the Overture Foundation Building Dataset is available under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).

Provided by: Overture Foundation

Curated in GEE by: Samapriya Roy

Keywords: Building Data, Overture Foundation, OpenStreetMap, Esri, Google, Microsoft

Dataset release date: 2024-07-22

Last updated in GEE: 2024-08-01