Datasets
Google Open Buildings (Africa) vs OpenStreetMap Nigeria Extract (Geofabrik)
A verified, side-by-side comparison. Both records are status-checked by Findra, so you are comparing what each actually offers today, not a stale listing.
Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Geographic
Geographic
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open
Free / ODbL
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
satellite, geospatial, buildings, footprints, hdx
openstreetmap, osm, shapefile, geopackage, vector
Summary
Machine-learning building footprint dataset first released for Africa and now covering 1.8 billion detections, each with a polygon, confidence score and Plus Code. Africa is served both as the original continent-wide product and as per-country GeoParquet/GeoJSON extracts on HDX. Data downloads as CSV by S2 cell, via gsutil, Google Earth Engine or the web explorer; latest v3 is May 2023.
Daily-updated OpenStreetMap data extract for Nigeria in .osm.pbf (~677 MB), ESRI shapefile .shp.zip (~2.0 GB) and .gpkg.zip (~2.0 GB), plus dated historical snapshots. Distributed by Geofabrik under ODbL.