Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data
This is pretty great! This data is usually locked up in individual scraper-unfriendly county websites, sometimes behind a paywall, sometimes only by person, or even only by mail. And the data is often limited to parcel geometry, not building footprints.<p>The other option is to use 3rd party services to purchase or lease the data. This data can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for the entire US dataset.