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Buildings

Overview​

The Overture Maps buildings theme describes human-made structures with roofs or interior spaces that are permanently or semi-permanently in one place (source: OSM building definition).

Key schema design choices​

  • Extensible attributes. Overture starts from a basic model containing footprint polygons and a small number of optional attributes. Attributes currently not covered in the official schema release are allowed to exist with the prefix ext in their name.
  • Easy transformation from other data sources. Classes such as residential, commercial or education are intended to be broad categories in which many different OSM tagging combinations can map to the same class.

Schema reference​