Buildings from openstreetmap data?

[JamesMaeding]

I am doing research on this, and am wondering if anyone has had success getting building heights going.

You can get shapefiles from:

http://download.geofabrik.de/

but they do not seem to have height info.

Autodesk uses this data so I am sure they know, lets see if they share.

[elliott.rosenfeld]

Hi jmaeding,

An initial thought (if I am understanding your question correctly) -- Do these SHP files have data for floor height and # of floors?

You could create an expression during import/configuration to calculate Roof Height (i.e. building height) based on: floors x floor_height

Thanks!

Elliott

[JamesMaeding]

My son's name is Elliott!

Good idea, but I did not see them in the shapefile.

the only data brought in (as map object data) is featureid, and osm_id.

So I can only assume the osm_id is what you use to lookup data in some other database.

I need to find an example on codeproject or something, tat access the other database.

[nzeeben]

Hey James,

Elliott asked me to take a look at your question. For model builder we use the open street map data directly, they store in a pbf format I think if memory serves me. Our team directly reads this data, whomever is running geofabrik doesn't seem to be including the height or any building data other that name, ID and type.

Thanks
Nick

[JamesMaeding]

cool, I can chase down reading the pbf database I think. I prefer ADO.net to read the databases, and popular ones seem to have that.

[elliott.rosenfeld]

Glad you got an answer Jmaeding.

(Thanks Nick!)

@jmaeding - that's awesome, I don't meet a lot of Elliotts. I may be biased, but I think it's a great name 🙂