Cesium OSM Buildings

The Capitol building in Washington DC in Cesium OSM Buildings — *Washington, DC*

San Francisco in Cesium OSM Buildings — *San Francisco, CA*

NYC in Cesium OSM Buildings — *New York City*

Global 3D buildings with rich metadata

Cesium OSM Buildings is a 3D buildings layer covering the entire world. It’s available as a 3D Tileset on Cesium ion, ready to use in custom applications with CesiumJS or any client that supports 3D Tiles.

It’s derived from OpenStreetMap and contains over 350 million buildings with per-building metadata. This includes basic information like building name and height, to address, opening hours, and even type of material for individual parts of buildings.

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Tileset specs

Format: 3D Tiles

Coverage: Global, updated quarterly.

Options: Available for use with either Cesium World Terrain or Cesium World Bathymetric (CWB) terrain.

Per-building properties

There are over 20,000 types of properties available in Cesium OSM Buildings. A complete list can be found on this OpenStreetMap table. Not all properties are available for each building. You can use Cesium Stories to inspect any building’s properties.

The following subset can be used for styling in Stories:

Property name	Description
elementType	The type of element. Elements are the basic components of OpenStreetMap's conceptual data model of the physical world.
elementId	Unique identifier for the building. Use it to highlight or hide individual buildings. Identifiers are only unique within the same `elementType`.
cesium#color	CSS color string. Used to color buildings using the 3D Tiles Styling Language.
cesium#estimatedHeight	An estimate for the height of the building in meters. When height data is not available, it is computed from the number of levels in the building, assuming a height of 3 meters per level and that all buildings have at least 1 level. Use the `height` property instead if you want to omit buildings that have no recorded height.
cesium#longitude	Longitude in degrees for the center of the building.
cesium#latitude	Latitude in degrees for the center of the building.
building	The type of building. Most common values include `house`, `residential`, `commercial`, and `public`.
shop	Type of store. Most common values include `convenience`, `supermarket`, `clothes`, and `bakery`.
source	The data source for this building in the OSM database.
name	Most common name associated with this building.
wheelchair	Whether this building is wheelchair accessible. Most common values include `yes`, `no`, and `limited`.
access	The legal accessibility of this building, for example, where it's open to the public or not. Most common values include `private`, `public`, and `customers`.

All properties beyond this subset can be used for styling/filtering in CesiumJS. See code example on styling 3D Tiles

CesiumJS code example

const osmBuildings= await Cesium.createOsmBuildingsAsync();
viewer.scene.primitives.add(osmBuildings);

See more code examples on Sandcastle

Attribution

You must include the following attribution in any application that uses Cesium OSM Buildings:

This attribution is automatically included when using this asset in CesiumJS or Cesium Stories.

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