a building with many windows
A lightweight, offline-friendly tool for downloading Google’s 2.5D Open Buildings dataset at national scale. This blog introduces a Jupyter Notebook that bypasses Earth Engine limits by using direct download links—enabling researchers to work with high-resolution building data across entire countries. Developed under the DEPRIMAP project.

DEPRIMAP is a research funded by FORMAS (Swedish Research Council, application 2023-01210) involving KAU (Karlstad University, Sweden)