2014 building footprint shapefile for the City of Melbourne, showing the horizontal projection of building outlines and roof areas. The dataset includes height information for each footprint feature, sourced from City of Melbourne Open Data.
Use Cases
- Analyze building density and urban form using footprint outlines and height data.
- Calculate total built area from footprint outlines for infrastructure or environmental planning.
- Integrate building footprint and height features with 3D city models or point cloud data.
- Assess solar potential or shadow analysis using roof area projections from footprint data.
Strengths
- Data includes height information for each building footprint feature.
- Covers the entire City of Melbourne jurisdiction.
- Available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP, JSON, CSV, and GEOJSON.
- Released under a Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by) license.
Limitations
- Data is from a single year (2014), potentially outdated for current analysis.
- Height data may include non-architectural elements like communication towers, requiring filtering.
- No row count or sample data is provided to assess dataset scale.
Provenance
- Source
- City of Melbourne Open Data
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- 2014
- Freshness
- Last updated metadata in March 2026, but underlying data is from 2014.
- Geography
- City of Melbourne, Australia