Compare Google Footprints with Microsoft Building Footprint data

[SahitiSarva]

https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/

[jfulponi]

FYI: nice tool https://github.com/opengeos/open-buildings

[jfulponi]

First look at Google Open Buildings:

Google Footprints

PROs:

• Is nice to have the p-value of the estimate as a column of each building.
• Has the Google background, so we could think this is one of the best measurings.
• Geometries are ultra-detailed.

CONs:

• The level of detail makes the files very big.
• It does not contain additional useful info (like OpenStreetMaps).
• The buildings with better p-value are great, but in the worst ones the buildings are surprinsingly wrong.
• The confidence distribution is not equal around the world: