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Google Open Buildings (Africa)

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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.

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Free / open
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馃實 Pan-African
Last verified
5 Jul 2026

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satellite
geospatial
buildings
footprints
hdx

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