Download [Buildings] for specific States, Counties, Cities or a defined polygon/point?

[Ignacio Requena (irequena24)]

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Greetings, I wanted to know if there's a way to download data for entire states, counties, cities, and/or a defined polygon layer or a point layer (i.e. coordinates that point to the rooftop of a building).

If so, what method? I already tried through AWS or Azure, but they require a subscription to download data from their servers. I did not encounter paywalls through DuckDB and or GeoAI, but I did experience a download cap (at least in DuckDB) for about 15 GB.

Anything helps! Thank you

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[Matt Travis (mtravis)]

Ignacio Requena (@irequena24) you can use the aws cli to download the entire buildings dataset. There are no paywalls it's completely free and open.

You can run this to get the whole buildings dataset but be warned it's currently 224.GB

aws s3 cp  --no-sign-request --recursive s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2025-03-19.0/theme=buildings/type=building/ ./overture_buidings

If you have the space to store that somewhere temporarily you can then use DuckDB to run create a copy of the US using a bounding box and save that to file.

It would be interesting to hear your proposed use case.

[Ignacio Requena (irequena24)]

Thank you Matt! Can I run that command in say a Jupyter Notebook just by copying and pasting it?

Does Overture allow for open access to parcel boundary data? I read through the documentation and it does not seem like it does.

We are conducting research to get an estimate of building floorspace, for rural areas of US and indigenous communities. This will help us estimate electricity consumption based on other known averages.