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    131M American Buildings

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    86 points marklit | 20 comments | 02 Nov 24 09:03 UTC | HN request time: 1.272s | source | bottom
    1. cranberryturkey ◴[02 Nov 24 09:14 UTC] No.42025080[source]▶
    any cool ideas I could build with this data?
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    2. delichon ◴[02 Nov 24 09:17 UTC] No.42025091[source]▶
    A sandbox game with a map 1 to 1 with the ground truth.
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    3. cranberryturkey ◴[02 Nov 24 09:43 UTC] No.42025196{3}[source]▶
    i have no idea what that even means.
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    4. Retric ◴[06 Nov 24 21:35 UTC] No.42069795{4}[source]▶
    Something like: https://screenrant.com/infection-free-zone-steam-openstreetm...
    5. Rebelgecko ◴[06 Nov 24 21:48 UTC] No.42070002{4}[source]▶
    Think along the lines of how MS Flight Sim used photogrammetry to let people fly over their houses
    6. cschep ◴[06 Nov 24 22:38 UTC] No.42070640[source]▶
    Desktop computers are amazing these days.
    7. IncreasePosts ◴[06 Nov 24 23:10 UTC] No.42071011[source]▶
    An application that simulates shadows at a particular location. For real estate purposes, seeing what kind of sunshine you would get in your backyard when you purchase that house with a backyard in the north.
    replies(2): >>42071572 #>>42071779 #
    8. rubyfan ◴[06 Nov 24 23:22 UTC] No.42071126[source]▶
    Anyone know if this is commercial buildings only or does it include residential too?
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    9. jeffbee ◴[06 Nov 24 23:26 UTC] No.42071173[source]▶
    Virtually all of the buildings are residential. There are 20x more residential than anything else.
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    10. didgetmaster ◴[06 Nov 24 23:53 UTC] No.42071465[source]▶
    I am tempted to import this data into my system and build a pivot table of building type (PRIM_OCC) by state.

    I could then graph the data (pie chart, bar graph, etc) to show how the building type distribution (e.g. residential ratio per hospital) varies between the states.

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    11. mistrial9 ◴[07 Nov 24 00:03 UTC] No.42071556[source]▶
    https://data.hrsa.gov/tools/shortage-area/mua-find
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    12. arminiusreturns ◴[07 Nov 24 00:03 UTC] No.42071560{3}[source]▶
    What would the licensing be? I have a test earth I'm doing this with in Godot, but am paranoid about using anything not GPL/CC compat...
    13. _boffin_ ◴[07 Nov 24 00:04 UTC] No.42071572{3}[source]▶
    CoreLogic was doing something like this, but line of sight from a window and then be able to possibly identify the scene / view that can be had from that window.
    14. pfdietz ◴[07 Nov 24 00:13 UTC] No.42071642{3}[source]▶
    Does it include bike sheds? I feel I could spend a long time on that part of the database.
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    15. maxerickson ◴[07 Nov 24 00:26 UTC] No.42071764{4}[source]▶
    One of the criteria for inclusions is an area greater than 450 square feet.

    You can look at it in a slippy map: https://gis-fema.hub.arcgis.com/pages/usa-structures (a couple clicks required from there).

    In my area it doesn't particularly identify garages well, so you probably can't spend that much time on bike sheds.

    16. maxerickson ◴[07 Nov 24 00:27 UTC] No.42071779{3}[source]▶
    The geometry is just the building footprint. You could probably do some sort of estimate as to how likely the yard was to have sun, but it wouldn't enable doing anything detailed.
    17. _carbyau_ ◴[07 Nov 24 00:37 UTC] No.42071864{4}[source]▶
    :-)

    Some may need an assist: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

    18. oliyoung ◴[07 Nov 24 00:53 UTC] No.42072007{4}[source]▶
    Wonderfully executed joke. 10pts.
    19. didgetmaster ◴[07 Nov 24 01:15 UTC] No.42072185{3}[source]▶
    Interesting, but not what I was thinking.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScBd-71OLQ