topic Re: Texas Building Footprints in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Texas Building Footprints

SonaSunny — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:04:05 GMT

Has anyone had success in converting the Microsoft building footprints data for Texas to featureclass? I tried several times using the conversion tool box but it keeps on crashing.

Re: Texas Building Footprints

George_Thompson — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:27:05 GMT

This works: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9da0f8ae5fee45aca11bf77f712884c8

Requires ArcGIS Pro 2.2 and ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension, or the FME 2018 product.

It worked great for me!

Re: Texas Building Footprints

LeoLadefian5 — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:45:45 GMT

I used FME, you need something more robust for the large dataset.

Re: Texas Building Footprints

MichaelVolz — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:06:56 GMT

Does the documentation include the date of data capture so you know how recent the data is?

Re: Texas Building Footprints

LeoLadefian5 — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:59:13 GMT

GitHub - Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints: Computer generated building footprints for the United States

Re: Texas Building Footprints

LeoLadefian5 — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 16:00:17 GMT

Data Vintage

The vintage of the footprints depends on the vintage of the underlying imagery. Because Bing Imagery is a composite of multiple sources it is difficult to know the exact dates for individual pieces of data.

Re: Texas Building Footprints

SonaSunny — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 16:13:19 GMT

Thank you will try that!

Re: Texas Building Footprints

SonaSunny — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:25:13 GMT

I don't have the Data Interoperability Extension. I tried to use a trial version of the FME 2018 product but that is crashing too 😞 . Were you able to extract the Texas data ?

Re: Texas Building Footprints

SonaSunny — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:28:04 GMT

Were you able to extract the Texas Building Footprints using the FME ?

Re: Texas Building Footprints

George_Thompson — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:32:38 GMT

Sona Sunny‌ I was able to do this with Data Interop extension. I did NOT install FME from their site.

BUG-000116435

Performance issue when converting large GeoJSON files.

Release notes for ArcGIS Pro 2.2—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

The latest patch can be downloaded/installed via the Pro built-in updater or via My Esri. Once installed and retry the workflow, please report back. Thanks!

Re: Texas Building Footprints

George_Thompson — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:58:35 GMT

Update: I tested importing North Dakota using the JSON to Features GP tool and it worked fine, no crashes.

I would install Pro 2.2.2 and then rested.

Re: Texas Building Footprints

SonaSunny — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:35:20 GMT

It worked!!! Pro 2.2.2 is the Winner! It took 50 min to convert the Texas Geojson file to a File geotabase feature Class. Thank you George for letting me know of the latest patch! I had almost given up on this dataset as FME also crashed and that's when saw your post!

Re: Texas Building Footprints

George_Thompson — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:45:16 GMT

Thanks for the update! I am glad to hear that it is working for you now.

Re: Texas Building Footprints

dfwgw — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:59:02 GMT

Texas was a success via FME version of the ImportBuildingGeoJSON tool published on AGOL. Patience is key.

bruce_harold for the win.

Re: Texas Building Footprints

NicholasBailey — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 20:27:41 GMT

I got this to run and work but when i looked at the attribute table it didn't have shape length or area length? Any idea of what i have to do to get it to import the height attributes?

Re: Texas Building Footprints

George_Thompson — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:48:20 GMT

There is shape area and length: See for Texas below.

I bet the small #'s are related to the spatial reference of the data.

I do not see any data related to height attributes only the 2D representation of the building footprint.

Re: Texas Building Footprints

NicholasBailey — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:14:10 GMT

Perfect. I got it to work using the FME workbench. Only problem now is my buildings are in the middle of the ocean near Africa. How did you manage to get it into EPSG: 4326? I cant find that projection anywhere in the ESRI system.

Re: Texas Building Footprints

George_Thompson — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:52:37 GMT

I did not do anything to get it into that projection. It was part of the GeoJSON file and imported when I loaded it into my file geodatabase.

You may need to look at the FME workbench to see why the projection is missing in the output.

The 4326 projection is a geographic coordinate system WKID - https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/classes/pdf/geographic_coordinate_systems.pdf

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