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Building footprint data by country

Theme
Buildings
Countries
134
National sources
245
Global datasets
10
Last verified

National building and topographic databases, plus open global footprints from Overture, Google Open Buildings, Microsoft and OpenStreetMap. This page lists all 245 national building sources in the catalogue, country by country, after the 10 global datasets.

Global buildings datasets

  • Google Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Google Research · Global South

    Annual 4 m rasters of building presence, fractional count and height for 2016–2023 across the Global South, from Sentinel-2.

    • Buildings
    • Population
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    sites.research.google

    Verified

  • Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Microsoft · Global

    About 1.4 bn machine-learned building footprints from Bing imagery (2014–2024) with height estimates in places, tiled by quadkey.

    • Buildings
    Licence
    ODbL 1.0
    Formats
    GeoJSON, CSV
    Link
    github.com

    Verified

  • Google Open Buildings (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Google Research · Global South

    About 1.8 bn building polygons (v3, 2023) with confidence scores for Africa, South and South-East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

    • Buildings
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0 or ODbL 1.0 (your choice)
    Formats
    CSV
    Link
    sites.research.google

    Verified

  • BBBike custom OSM extracts (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    BBBike.org · Global

    Draw any polygon and get OpenStreetMap data in 30+ formats by e-mail link, usually within minutes; areas up to 24 million km².

    • Transport
    • Buildings
    Licence
    ODbL 1.0
    Formats
    PBF, Shapefile, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, Garmin
    Link
    extract.bbbike.org

    Verified

  • HOT Export Tool (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free with registration

    Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team · Global

    Build custom OpenStreetMap exports by area and tag selection (roads, buildings, health facilities); free OSM login required.

    • Transport
    • Buildings
    • Open data portal
    Licence
    ODbL 1.0
    Formats
    GeoPackage, Shapefile, KML, PBF, CSV
    Link
    export.hotosm.org

    Verified

  • Source Cooperative (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Radiant Earth · Global

    Cloud-native data repository; hosts the former Radiant MLHub training datasets and mirrors of building, land-cover and field-boundary data.

    • Open data portal
    • Imagery
    • Buildings
    Licence
    Per dataset
    Formats
    GeoParquet, COG, STAC, PMTiles
    Link
    source.coop

    Verified

  • Geofabrik downloads (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Geofabrik · Global

    Daily OpenStreetMap extracts by continent, country and region as .osm.pbf, plus free Shapefile layers for smaller regions.

    • Transport
    • Boundaries & admin
    • Buildings
    Licence
    ODbL 1.0
    Formats
    PBF, Shapefile
    Link
    download.geofabrik.de

    Verified

  • Global Human Settlement Layer (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    European Commission JRC · Global

    Built-up surface, building height, population grids (GHS-POP) and degree of urbanisation from 1975 to 2030 at 10 m–1 km.

    • Population
    • Buildings
    • Land cover
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

    Verified

  • OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)

    API Cost: Free

    OpenStreetMap contributors · Global

    The free, editable map of the world, updated by the minute; query it with Overpass or OSMnx (see our OSMnx tutorial).

    • Transport
    • Boundaries & admin
    • Hydrology
    • Buildings
    • Addresses & cadastre
    Licence
    ODbL 1.0
    Formats
    PBF, XML
    Link
    openstreetmap.org

    Verified

  • Overture Maps (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Overture Maps Foundation · Global

    Monthly releases of buildings (2.5 bn+), places, addresses, transportation and divisions (admin boundaries) as cloud-native GeoParquet on S3 and Azure.

    • Transport
    • Boundaries & admin
    • Buildings
    • Addresses & cadastre
    Licence
    ODbL 1.0 (buildings, transportation, divisions); CDLA Permissive 2.0 (places, base)
    Formats
    GeoParquet
    Link
    docs.overturemaps.org

    Verified

Buildings sources by country

Africa 56 countries

Algeria 2
Angola 3
Benin 3
Botswana 3
Burkina Faso 3
Burundi 3
Cabo Verde 1
Cameroon 3
Central African Republic 3
Chad 3
Comoros 1
Côte d'Ivoire 3
Democratic Republic of the Congo 3
Djibouti 3
Egypt 2
Equatorial Guinea 3
Eritrea 3
Eswatini 3
Ethiopia 3
Gabon 3
Ghana 3
Guinea 3
Guinea-Bissau 3
Kenya 3
Lesotho 3
Liberia 3
Libya 2
Madagascar 3
Malawi 3
Mali 3
Mauritania 3
Mauritius 1
Morocco 2
Mozambique 3
Namibia 3
Niger 3
Nigeria 4
Republic of the Congo 3
Rwanda 3
Saint Helena 1
São Tomé and Príncipe 1
Senegal 3
Seychelles 1
Sierra Leone 3
Somalia 3
South Africa 3
South Sudan 3
Sudan 3
Tanzania 3
The Gambia 3
Togo 3
Tunisia 2
Uganda 3
Western Sahara 2
Zambia 3
Zimbabwe 3

Asia 51 countries

Afghanistan 1
Armenia 1
Azerbaijan 1
Bahrain 1
Bangladesh 1
Bhutan 1
British Indian Ocean Territory 1
Brunei 1
Cambodia 1
Cyprus 1
Georgia 1
Hong Kong 3
India 1
Indonesia 1
Iran 1
Iraq 1
Israel 1
Japan 2
Jordan 1
Kazakhstan 1
Kuwait 1
Kyrgyzstan 1
Laos 1
Lebanon 1
Macao 1
Malaysia 1
Maldives 1
Mongolia 1
Myanmar 1
Nepal 1
North Korea 1
Oman 1
Pakistan 1
Palestine 1
Philippines 1
Qatar 1
Saudi Arabia 1
Singapore 1
South Korea 2
Sri Lanka 1
Syria 1
Taiwan 1
Tajikistan 1
Thailand 1
Timor-Leste 1
Türkiye 1
Turkmenistan 1
United Arab Emirates 1
Uzbekistan 1
Vietnam 1
Yemen 1

Europe 21 countries

Åland Islands 1
Belgium 2
Czechia 1
Estonia 1
Finland 1
France 1
Germany 3
Guernsey 2
Isle of Man 1
Jersey 2
Latvia 2
Lithuania 1
Monaco 1
Netherlands 3
Poland 1
San Marino 1
Slovakia 1
Slovenia 1
Switzerland 1
United Kingdom 3
Vatican City 1

North America 5 countries

Canada 2
Curaçao 1
Greenland 1
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 1
United States 1

Oceania 1 country

New Zealand 2

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