Austin Building Footprints from 2013 Orthoimagery

Building footprints for the City of Austin were created through heads-up digitizing using 2012/2013 Orthoimagery and supplemental 2012 Lidar data. The dataset includes geospatial features for urban planning applications.

Use Cases

• Analyze urban density and land use patterns using building footprint geometries.
• Integrate building footprints with other geospatial layers for infrastructure planning.
• Use digitized footprints as a base layer for 3D city modeling and visualization.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from authoritative city government organization.
• Created from high-resolution 2012/2013 Orthoimagery and 2012 Lidar.
• Available in multiple interoperable formats including JSON, CSV, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• The dataset is based on 2012/2013 source imagery and may not reflect recent construction.
• Specific row counts and column attributes are unknown, limiting analytical scope.
• License is unspecified, requiring careful review before commercial use.

Provenance

Source

City of Austin

Collection Method

Heads-up digitizing from Orthoimagery and Lidar.

Time Range

2012-2013

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, but underlying imagery is from 2012/2013.

Geography

City of Austin, Texas