Mark Litwintschik 1/30/2026

Microsoft's 2026 Global ML Building Footprints

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This technical article examines Microsoft's latest 2026 release of its Global ML Building Footprints dataset, a machine learning-derived database of 1.4 billion building footprints from satellite imagery. It details the author's high-performance workstation setup, the process of installing and configuring DuckDB with extensions for data analysis, and the use of QGIS for map rendering to explore the dataset's structure and contents.

Microsoft's 2026 Global ML Building Footprints

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