Google Open Buildings

Google's Open Buildings is an open access dataset containing the geometry of buildings across most of Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia. This version of the dataset is transformed to be partitioned by admin 1 boundaries and available in cloud-native geospatial formats (PMTiles, GeoParquet). Note that https://source.coop/repositories/vida/google-microsoft-osm-open-buildings/description is likely a better source for this data.

There is no commitment to keep this dataset up to date with the latest releases. The code used to do the processing can be found at https://github.com/opengeos/open-buildings

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
ID
GCS Poster
Filebin Poster
Version
Is live dataset
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Structured data license
Date created
Date published June 26, 2024
Date modified August 21, 2025
Languages
Same as
  1. https://source.coop//cholmes/google-open-buildings
Cite as
Creators
Creator 1
Type
Person
ID
cholmes
Identifier
Name
Chris Holmes
Email
cholmes@9eo.org
URL
https://source.coop/cholmes
Publishers
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