Sources
The open data each city is drawn from, and how it is credited.
The wide area around each city
© OpenStreetMap contributors, Overture Maps Foundation. Licensed under the Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL); the map data's copyright is set out at https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. Cut from Overture Maps Foundation's release 2026-09-23.1, its terms read on 2026-10-13.
Every building in the wide area is a sketch from open map data: its outline and height as the data has them, its height estimated where the data has none, and no name, year or stage.
Overture Maps Foundation lists every upstream source and its license on its attribution page. The ones its buildings, roads and rail, and water and land are built from:
- OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL: buildings, roads and rail, water, land use and land
- Microsoft's Global ML Building Footprints, ODbL: building footprints where the map has none
- Esri Community Maps contributors, CC BY 4.0: building footprints
- Google Open Buildings, CC BY 4.0: building footprints where the map has none
- USGS 3D Elevation Program, no license stated: building heights
- TomTom, no license stated: roads
Each city
- Austin
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · City of Austin open data · Travis CAD parcels (informational only) · heights: OSM tags, 2013 lidar · terrain: Mapzen/AWS terrain tiles
- Denver
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · heights: Microsoft Building Footprints (ML, ODbL) · terrain: Mapzen/AWS terrain tiles
- Miami
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · heights: Microsoft Building Footprints (ML, ODbL) · Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser (as is; not for financial decisions) · zoning: Miami 21 (City of Miami, CC BY 4.0) · terrain: Mapzen/AWS terrain tiles
- New York
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · buildings: NYC Open Data Building Footprints (DOITT) · land use: MapPLUTO (NYC Planning) · zoning: MapPLUTO (NYC Planning) · street trees: NYC Parks 2015 Street Tree Census · MapPLUTO (NYC Planning); assessed values from NYC DOF (informational only) · 3D landmarks: Rebar Radar models · terrain: Mapzen/AWS terrain tiles