Why is there no worldwide OSM building coverage in LAOW?

Question

We are trying to build an app using the JSAPI and want to have worldwide coverage of buildings. In order to show them in 3D we have to access the FeatureLayer since we cannot extrude the vector tile buildings from MapBox (which is worldwide) since Esri does not support that (as asked here: fill-extrusion Vector Tile Layer style gives an error: unknown vector tile layer ). If you search in the Living Atlas for OSM Buildings you only get authoritative data for North America, Central America and Africa.

Is there another worldwide service we could use or a workaround for the vector tile fill-extrusion functionality? Are there plans to add the rest of world to LAOW?

StevenMoore1 · Accepted Answer

Hi Sean,

For now we're publishing OSM data on a regional basis for scalability and performance reasons. However, that could change at some point in the future once we're out of beta.

As you noted, the regions currently available are North America, Africa, and Central America. Europe is being worked on right now and should be available in the next 2-3 weeks. After that we plan to have the remaining regions up and running within the next few months.

The blog that Marco linked to also has some good information, but feel free to reply here with any further questions or feedback.

Thanks,

Steve