Google Open Buildings (Africa)

Machine-learning building footprint dataset first released for Africa and now covering 1.8 billion detections, each with a polygon, confidence score and Plus Code. Africa is served both as the original continent-wide product and as per-country GeoParquet/GeoJSON extracts on HDX. Data downloads as CSV by S2 cell, via gsutil, Google Earth Engine or the web explorer; latest v3 is May 2023.

Category

Datasets

Pricing

Free / open

Country

🌍 Pan-African

Last verified

25 Aug 2026

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  "name": "Google Open Buildings (Africa)",
  "slug": "google-open-buildings-africa",
  "category": "DATASET",
  "country": "Pan-African",
  "docs_status": "LIVE",
  "licensing_required": "NONE",
  "verified": false,
  "last_verified": "2026-08-25",
  "website": "https://sites.research.google/gr/open-buildings/",
  "documentation_url": "https://data.humdata.org/dataset/google-open-buildings-kenya"
}