Not to poo-poo somebody giving to OSM, but the quality of that data isn't much better than hand drawn (and by "hand drawn" I mean with a mouse and drawing lines only without using the building tool or the extrude function). Non-orthogonal lines, self-intersecting ways, non-simplified ways, overlapping ways (vs using multipolygons) and the "Height" tag is capitalized when it shouldn't be.
It beats nothing, though. I'd think most large cities on that list would have a GIS department and already have building outlines available (or maybe through a request) and, as a bonus, address information. And as far as the Mississippi dataset goes, it says its "Pensacola" (which is in Florida) but is actually parts of Biloxi and Gulfport. I'll definitely conflate the heights with the existing buildings in the area, though. On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:07 PM Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > Brad, > Thanks for correcting the link. > > Clifford > > Sent from my Android phone. > > On Mar 22, 2017 9:59 AM, "Brad Neuhauser" <brad.neuhau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I think this is it? > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Available_Building_Footprints > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Rihards <ric...@nakts.net> wrote: > > On 2017.03.22. 18:37, Clifford Snow wrote: > > I am happy to announce that Microsoft has made available approximately > > 9.8 million building footprints including building heights in key > > metropolitan areas. These footprints are licensed ODbL to allow > > importing into OSM. These footprints where manually created using high > > resolution imagery. The data contains no funny field names such as > > tiger:cfcc or gnis:featureid or fcode=46003, just building height. > > > > > > Please remember to follow the import guidelines. > > > > The wiki [1] has more information on these footprints as well as links > > to download. > > the link seems to be a copypaste mistake :) > > > [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dieterdreist/diary/40727 > > > > Enjoy, > > Clifford Snow > > > > > > -- > > @osm_seattle > > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us <http://osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us> > > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > > -- > Rihards > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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