Classifying buildings

[James (JimShady)]

Hello,

I am hoping that someone could help me with some ideas about methods to classify the buildings within the Overture dataset into different categories. For example things like:

• residential single home
• residential multi-occupancy home
• commercial offices
• commercial retail
• industrial heavy
• industrial light
• governmental
• Education
  etc

I was wondering whether I could perhaps leverage the OSM 'tags' but they aren't in the Overture data.

Any ideas on this kind of area very welcome. Thanks.

[Jennings Anderson (jenningsanderson)]

Hi James (@JimShady)

Yes, the mapping from OSM Tags to Overture building attributes is available here: https://docs.overturemaps.org/schema/concepts/by-theme/buildings/

[James (JimShady)]

Ah nice. Right. I'll investigate thank you.

[wiseHolmes]

Overture used POI tags for buildings?! This makes it an ODbL violation for anybody to use these buildings with proprietary POIs... These layers must now be ODbL.

[Marc Prioleau (mprioleau)]

The Overture Buildings theme is already licensed under ODbL (link)

[wiseHolmes]

But my post offices aren't, and you've used ODbL post offices for Buildings. The post office layer must now be ODbL in my product.