Building Footprint Outlines For Melbourne City

Building outlines 2015 is a shapefile showing the footprints of all buildings within the City of Melbourne. The data defines a building footprint as the area under the horizontal projection of the roof or the outline of exterior walls. It is provided by the City of Melbourne Open Data.

Use Cases

• Analyze building footprint shapes and densities for urban planning and development assessments.
• Integrate footprint geometry with point cloud data for 3D city modeling and height analysis.
• Use building outlines as a base layer for accessibility and infrastructure planning studies.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple interoperable formats including SHP, JSON, CSV, and GEOJSON.
• Covers the entire City of Melbourne jurisdiction.
• Released under a permissive Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by) license.

Limitations

• The dataset's specific row count, column structure, and file size are unknown.
• The core building data is from 2015, which may not reflect recent construction.
• The data dictionary is in a separate PDF, requiring additional review for field definitions.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

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Time Range

2015

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data is from 2015.

Geography

City of Melbourne, Australia