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Will Esri host the open buildings layer derived from OSM like Cesium?

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06-02-2020 03:57 PM
NickMiller2
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‎06-02-2020 03:57 PM

I was just wondering if Esri plans to host the open buildings layer derived from OSM Building data? Cesium have just offered this layer to their users so I think it would be good to have this available as a service in AGOL as well?

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by Anonymous User
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‎06-04-2020 12:40 PM

Hi Nick,

Esri has been considering something similar for a couple of years.  The OSM ODbL licensing offers challenges that I'm not sure how Cesium has addressed.  This is why we generally avoid demoing with OSM content that can't be handled under another license.

We have found some ways to accommodate the licensing.  The vector tile data set that we generate is an example.  We're exploring how we might be able to do this with 3D, but it's a bit more complicated.

Chris