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131M American Buildings
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Compared to anything I've seen from Microsoft and Google, this dataset appears to have much more accurate building footprints to the point I initially thought they were manually surveyed. I used QGIS' Tile+ plugin to add geospatial context with NASA's Blue Marble and Esri's World Imagery Basemaps to the maps. I've added predicates to only use valid latitude and longitude values and avoid anything near the international dateline as the polygons for that area will cover the earth horizontally when rendered in QGIS.
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