Mark Litwintschik 9/24/2025

Canada's 13M Buildings

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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.

Canada's 13M Buildings

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