I was wondering if there are some free projects which enable extracting the building height information from openstreetmap data?
I downloaded data for a couple of large cities (Manhattan island, Munich…) and none of them contained the height information.
I googled a bit and found a project where Lidar point clouds have been overlayed on top of openstreetmap data, and then the height of the building rooftops have been identified by checking the point's Z coordinates.
Are there any other free projects which enable defining the height of the buildings of openstreetmap data? At least for world's major (largest) cities?
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The height of a building is difficult to obtain except when having official data. But the number of building levels is easy to obtain by just looking at the building. Maybe building:levels is sufficient for your use-case? Also see simple 3D buildings for various other interesting information regarding 3D tagging.