use building footprints from OSM or ESRI base maps?

[JayLarsen]

Is there a way to use building footprints from OSM or ESRI base maps?

I want to tag my buildings in a map for the real estate dept to use.

Both OSM and ESRI have pretty good building footprints, I just need to "cut" out the ones I'm interested in and put them in layer so I can do a JOIN to my ownership and use data?

[David_McRitchie · Accepted solution]

Hey Jay. The basemaps will only be there for contextual mapping and so would not be features you could easily tag unless you manually made features and labeled these.

I would recommend downloading the underlaying data for building footprints. You can get the footprint data from OSM through here.

Hope that helps!

David

[JayLarsen]

Yeah, I saw that.  Even d/l a test *.osm file to hack in QGIS.  I was hoping for an "automatic" way?

Maybe I should just draw them? There could only be 20-30 structures in the end? I'll experiment.

Thanks!