こんにちは (Konnichiwa)
Our latest building data import is from the country of rising sun — Japan!
Registration with authorities and download procedures are a little more complex in Japanese. Also file formats are, let’s say, very traditional XML structures. We’ve had quite some scripting work to do but it’s been clearly worth the effort.
We finally managed to add more than 60 Million buildings to our database.
First reviews confirmed a large number of valid polygons but also unexpected splits, see below.
Big news for Down Under: Microsoft’s Open Data department have just released a new dataset for Australia. Machine learning algorithms were used to detect 11 Million building footprints in the country.
Before diving right in and adding the data to our database, we ran our usual stringent QA checks to…
