# Microsoft U.S. Building Footprints

The [Microsoft U.S. Building Footprints](https://github.com/microsoft/USBuildingFootprints) data set is a collection of ~130 million polygon outlines of buildings derived from satellite imagery. The version of the data set in this repository is does not include Alaska or Hawaii, is repackaged as a single point for each building, and compressed using ZSTD compression to minimize file size and facilitate downloading.

The original data is licensed under the [Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/) and is made available here under the same license.

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## Files

- point ([fgb/zip](https://github.com/geoarrow/geoarrow-data/releases/download/v0.1.0/microsoft-buildings-point.fgb.zip), [arrow](https://github.com/geoarrow/geoarrow-data/releases/download/v0.1.0/microsoft-buildings-point.arrow), [arrow/interleaved](https://github.com/geoarrow/geoarrow-data/releases/download/v0.1.0/microsoft-buildings-point-interleaved.arrow))