Can someone tell me the best way to create building footprints from aerial images? I'm trying to create them in bulk instead of digitizing each building manually. Is this possible?
Even with the automated tools, you would probably still have a huge cleanup job where the automated process drew many of the polygons incorrectly.
You might try to consider hiring a company that is expert at performing this work, so you have a relatively clean dataset when the job is complete (Creative financing and hard-sell of multiple uses of this data to money managers). My organization was able to somehow come up with the money to do this.
We can now spend our money on making the flat dataset more useful by relating it to parcel and assessment data instead of spending our time digitizing polygons.
Even with the automated tools, you would probably still have a huge cleanup job where the automated process drew many of the polygons incorrectly.
You might try to consider hiring a company that is expert at performing this work, so you have a relatively clean dataset when the job is complete (Creative financing and hard-sell of multiple uses of this data to money managers). My organization was able to somehow come up with the money to do this.
We can now spend our money on making the flat dataset more useful by relating it to parcel and assessment data instead of spending our time digitizing polygons.