How do I download a building from OpenStreetMap?

How do I download a building from OpenStreetMap?

Building footprints from OpenStreetMap

1. Through your browser, visit the OpenStreetMap website.
2. Zoom at the area you want to work on.
3. Press the Export button on the top.
4. From the left panel, you may select to further specify the area you want to download (via the Manually select a different area option)

How do I open OSM files in SketchUp?

4 Ways to Use OpenStreetMap (OSM) data with SketchUp

1. Download the plugin and extract the files.
2. Copy the files and paste them into the SketchUp plugin folder.
3. In OSM, export your selected area as a .osm file.
4. Import your file into SketchUp and a 3D model will be generated in a few minutes.

Can you import from Google Maps into SketchUp?

Since SketchUp was owned by Google and initially used to crowdsource their Google Earth modeling, there are powerful, easy to use tools built into SketchUp to help both import maps into your models and also to geolocate models in Google Earth. Type in the location you’d like to import maps from into your model.

How is OpenStreetMap used to create 3D buildings?

Openstreetmap is done by people, for people. It’s basically 2D vector map, which has a lot of metadata on objects. The metadata associaeted with buildings in Openstreetmap is being used to create the 3-dimensional building.

How big is the OSM file in Blender?

The original OSM file contained more than 100.000 buildings and had the size 350 Mb. Moscow Kremlin. The example showcases the support of flat, gabled, mono-pitched, dome, onion and pyramidal roof shapes. Here are some updates to the script https://github.com/vvoovv/blender-geo/blob/master/io_import_scene_osm.py

Is there way to extrude roofs in OSM?

Unfortunately the osm importer only imports 2D information of the geometry, and no other osm information is stored (at least I haven’t been able to find it). I would still need to extrude each object and model their roofs, and I haven’t found any fast way to do that.

How to export OSM file into native format?

I have exported an OSM area into OSM’s native format *.osm file (which is an xml file) from their website. Full explanations on exporting an OSM file can be found here. For purposes of this exercise I will be downloading this particular area, which looks like this on this 3D Viewer thanks to the work of the community.