Buildings: Footprints, Height & Estimated Floor Area

Turn available building data into a city model showing density and estimated floor area without specialist GIS skills.

Uses a specialist data source

What this data helps you answer

Turn available building data into a city model showing density and estimated floor area without specialist GIS skills.

Where you can use it

Explore building data within each version’s coverage; this example starts in Suan Phlu, Bangkok.

How detailed the view is

Building footprints and 3D geometry with area summaries; height, floors and floor area include estimates

Where the data comes from

3D-GloBFP / OpenStreetMap for V4; Google Research for V3: V4 uses 3D-GloBFP by Che et al. and OpenStreetMap; V3 uses Open Buildings. Read attribution with the selected version.

What period the data covers

Available version labels: V3 May 2023 and V4 December 2024; these are not survey dates for every building.

Before making a decision

Building coverage and derived values may be incomplete or inaccurate. Use them to study development patterns, then check records or field evidence for an individual building.

Know before use

Building coverage and derived values may be incomplete or inaccurate. Use them to study development patterns, then check records or field evidence for an individual building.