Microsoft Building Footprints Downloader

Overview

This repository contains a script to download Microsoft Building Footprints for a specific municipality/region/country of the European Union. Boundaries are automatically obtained via GISCO, through the LAUs or NUTS dataset.

Instructions

Follow these steps to set up and run the script on your local machine:

1. Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/samuzilio/microsoft_building_footprints_downloader.git

2. Launch your text editor;

3. Open the cloned repository;

4. Start a new terminal;

5. Create and activate a virtual environment:

$ python -m venv .venv

$ .venv\Scripts\activate (for Windows)
$ source .venv/bin/activate (for macOS and Linux)

6. Install dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

7. Run the script (e.g. downloader_lau.py):

$ python downloader_lau.py