Mark Litwintschik • 9/24/2025

Canada's 13M Buildings

Read Original

This technical article details the exploration of Canada Structures, a new dataset containing over 13.7 million Canadian building footprints with metadata. It covers the dataset's sources (OpenStreetMap, Microsoft, municipal data), the author's high-performance workstation setup, and the initial steps for analysis using tools like GDAL, DuckDB with extensions, and QGIS for visualization.

0 comments
#data analysis #Openstreetmap #Geospatial Data
Canada's 13M Buildings

Comments

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!

Browser Extension

Get instant access to AllDevBlogs from your browser

Top of the Week

1
React, useEffect, and Stale Closures: How to Avoid Them with Dependencies and useRef
Jivbcoop • 4 votes
2
Better react-hook-form Smart Form Components
Maarten Hus • 2 votes
3
AGI, ASI, A*I – Do we have all we need to get there?
John D. Cook • 1 votes
4
Quoting Thariq Shihipar
Simon Willison • 1 votes
5
Dew Drop – January 15, 2026 (#4583)
Alvin Ashcraft • 1 votes
6
Using Browser Apis In React Practical Guide
Jivbcoop • 1 votes