Building Footprints

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Building Footprints

Posted by radvani | Categorized under Dataset

A city-wide set of building footprints, with building heights if available.

4 Comments

Tags: buildings footprints outlines

I just submitted a request for building outlines, a way to reinforce that your idea is good. Have you seen the laser photography being done to help cities understand their capacity for solar? http://inhabitat.com/2010/05/10/laser-equipped-airplane-creates-3d-solar-map-of-new-york-city/

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Written by enf
997 days ago

If you can reverse-engineer it from a PDF, the Planning Department has the building footprint map at http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/files/publications_reports/library_of_cartography/City_Street_Map.pdf

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Written by SFPlanningMWynne
969 days ago

The Planning Department does have building footprint data but we were given this data with the understanding that it was for internal use only. So, we can't publish the raw data unfortunately.

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Written by barryhooper
940 days ago

For a rough estimate of solar potential for every building in San Francisco, see: sf.solarmap.org The SF Solarmap has been online since 2006 or 2007. There are also a number of private firms that offer similar analysis at national or regional scale, typically associated with solar integrators or resellers.

At least four organizations have developed 3D models of the built environment in San Francisco, and 3D models of all buildings in San Francisco are available in Google Earth: http://www.cybercity3d.com/cc_blog/?p=381

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