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131M American Buildings

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rubyfan ◴[] No.42071126[source]
Anyone know if this is commercial buildings only or does it include residential too?
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1. jeffbee ◴[] No.42071173[source]
Virtually all of the buildings are residential. There are 20x more residential than anything else.
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2. pfdietz ◴[] No.42071642[source]
Does it include bike sheds? I feel I could spend a long time on that part of the database.
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3. maxerickson ◴[] No.42071764[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.

4. _carbyau_ ◴[] No.42071864[source]
:-)

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

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5. oliyoung ◴[] No.42072007[source]
Wonderfully executed joke. 10pts.
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6. sailfast ◴[] No.42072330[source]
Only if they're blue though. A true bike shed has to be some shade of blue.
7. gerdesj ◴[] No.42072341{3}[source]
You only get + or -.

I love to see a wry comment being taken seriously too and this one did not disappoint.

8. rubyfan ◴[] No.42072681[source]
A lot of them don't have addresses. I wonder if it can be intersected with another data set that has more complete address list.
9. didgetmaster ◴[] No.42072913{3}[source]
I had heard about bike shedding, and I still missed it too. I guess it was too subtle.