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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
language:
- en
---
# GlobalBuildingAtlas: An Open Global and Complete Dataset of Building Polygons, Heights, and LoD1 3D Models
[Paper](https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2025-327/)
## 1. Overview
**GlobalBuildingAtlas** is a dataset providing global and complete coverage of building polygons (**GBA.Polygon**), heights (**GBA.Height**), and Level of Detail 1 (LoD1) 3D building models (**GBA.LoD1**).
It is the first open dataset to offer high-quality, consistent, and complete building data in 2D and 3D at the individual building level on a global scale.
> ⚠️ **Note:**
>- This repository corresponds to Part II of the GlobalBuildingAtlas dataset, including PART II of the GBA.Polygon dataset containing building polygons from sources other than ODbL-licensed ones, and GBA.LoD1 provided in JSON format and links all building polygon features in GBA.Polygon.
>- These building polygons are from [**Google Open Buildings**](https://sites.research.google/gr/open-buildings/), [**CLSM**](https://zenodo.org/records/8174931) or our own derivation.
>- This repository (*GBA.LoD1*) is distributed under the **CC BY-NC 4.0 license**.
>- For the Part I of the dataset, please refer to [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zhu-xlab/GBA.ODbLPolygon).
>- For GBA.Height, please refer to [mediaTUM](https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1782307).
More details: [https://github.com/zhu-xlab/GlobalBuildingAtlas](https://github.com/zhu-xlab/GlobalBuildingAtlas)
---
## 2. Format and Structure
File names reflect the geographic extent in **EPSG:4326 (WGS84)**:
- **5° × 5° tiles:**
`{e/w}{lon_min}_{n/s}{lat_max}_{e/w}{lon_max}_{n/s}{lat_min}`
---
## 3. How to Use the Data
1. **Access the representative dataset**
- Either in the [`representative/`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zhu-xlab/GBA.LoD1/tree/main/representative) folder of this repository, or via [mediaTUM](https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1782307).
2. **Identify tiles overlapping your region of interest (RoI)**
- For polygons and LoD1 models: use `lod1.geojson` to find the intersecting tiles in `GBA.Polygon` or `GBA.LoD1`.
- For heights: use `height_zip.geojson` and `height_tif.geojson` to find intersecting tiles in `GBA.Height`.
3. **Download required tiles**
- **ODbL polygons**: download from [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zhu-xlab/GBA.ODbLPolygon) and save under:
```
./ODbLPolygon
```
- **LoD1 polygons and other data**: download from this repository, and save under:
```
./Polygon
./LoD1
```
4. **Run the enrichment script**
```bash
python produce_lod1.py
```
- You may also specify folder paths at your choice.
```bash
python produce_lod1.py \
--odbl_root /path/to/odbl \
--polygon_root /path/to/polygon \
--json_root /path/to/json \
--output_root /path/to/output
```
- The script will read the two GeoJSON folders and the JSON folder, merge the properties, and add height and var fields.
5. **Output**
- LoD1 GeoJSON files will be written under
```
./LoD1_GeoJSON
```
or the folder you specified.
- If you are only interested in GBA.Polygon, you can ignore the `height` and `var` fields.
>- ⚠️Users may combine these datasets for analysis or downstream applications, but doing so **may create license implications**.
>- ⚠️It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that their use complies with the respective licenses.
>- ⚠️This repository does **not provide legal advice**; users should review the original licenses and, if necessary, consult legal counsel.
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## 4. License
The building polygon and LoD1 data in this repository (**GBA.LoD1**) are licensed under the
**CC BY-NC 4.0 license** — [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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## 5. Citation
If you find this dataset useful for your work, please cite the following publication.
```
@Article{globalbuildingatlas,
AUTHOR = {Zhu, X. X. and Chen, S. and Zhang, F. and Shi, Y. and Wang, Y.},
TITLE = {GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models},
JOURNAL = {Earth System Science Data},
VOLUME = {17},
YEAR = {2025},
NUMBER = {12},
PAGES = {6647--6668},
URL = {https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/6647/2025/},
DOI = {10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025}
}
```
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