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## Adding a Dataset
- **Name:** Open Buildings
- **Description:** A dataset of building footprints to support social good applications.

Building footprints are useful for a range of important applications, from population estimation, urban planning and humanitarian response, to environmental and climate science. This large-scale open dataset contains the outlines of buildings derived from high-resolution satellite imagery in order to support these types of uses. The project being based in Ghana, the current focus is on the continent of Africa.

See: "Mapping Africa's Buildings with Satellite Imagery" https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/mapping-africas-buildings-with.html
- **Paper:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12283
- **Data:** https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/
- **Motivation:** *what are some good reasons to have this dataset*

Instructions to add a new dataset can be found [here](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/ADD_NEW_DATASET.md).

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