Every layer in the bundle.
One area, nine kinds of data, 31 output formats. Elevation and the surfaces built from it, aerial imagery, a vector basemap, building models, land cover, vegetation, flood zones, and the raw vector features behind them. Every layer is included with every order, whatever the size.
Nine data layers
Elevation/Elevation
The shape of the ground, and the analysis layers computed from it. This is the layer everything else is registered against.
- Elevation model in metres, ready for GIS and grading
Elevation/DEM.tifin download - 3D terrain tiles for the web and Cesium
Elevation/Terrain/in download - 16-bit heightmap for game engine landscapes
Elevation/Heightmap.pngin vault - Shaded relief for presentation and context
Elevation/Hillshade.tifin vault - Slope in degrees, for buildability and drainage
Elevation/Slope.tifin vault - Slope direction, for solar and exposure studies
Elevation/Aspect.tifin vault - Steep ground as polygons you can measure
Elevation/SteepSlope.gpkgin vault
Global. Every order gets the finest native resolution available for its area: down to 1 m across much of the populated United States and Europe, and 30 m elsewhere.
CC-BY. Copernicus and national elevation models, via Mapterhorn.
Imagery/Imagery
What the site looks like from above, as web tiles, as a raw georeferenced GeoTIFF, and as a texture aligned to the terrain.
- Imagery as web tiles
Imagery/Imagery.pmtilesin download - Raw imagery GeoTIFF at native resolution
Imagery/Imagery.tifin download - Terrain-aligned drape texture
Imagery/Drape.pngin vault - Vegetation index, for greenery and health studies
Imagery/NDVI.tifin vault
Sub-meter aerial imagery across the United States. Everywhere else falls back automatically to 10 m satellite imagery, and the manifest records which one you got.
Public domain (USDA NAIP) and ESA Free and Open (Sentinel-2).
Basemap/Basemap
A rendered vector basemap of roads, water, land use, and boundaries, for context under everything else.
- Vector basemap tiles
Basemap/Basemap.pmtilesin download
Global.
ODbL. The rendered tiles ship as a Produced Work.
Vector/Vector features
The real features behind the basemap as editable geometry: building footprints, roads, water, land use, land cover, and road centrelines draped onto the terrain.
- All layers as GeoPackage
Vector/in download - All layers as GeoJSON
Vector/in vault - All layers as Shapefile
Vector/in vault - All layers as FlatGeobuf
Vector/in vault
Global.
ODbL 1.0. Delivered as a licensed Derivative Database with attribution preserved, so onward sharing carries the same licence.
Mesh/Meshes
The terrain and the buildings as 3D geometry, ready to drop into a scene without conversion.
- Textured terrain mesh
Mesh/Terrain.glbin vault - Terrain mesh for older CAD and DCC tools
Mesh/Terrain.objin vault - Terrain mesh for USD pipelines
Mesh/Terrain.usdzin vault - Building massing mesh
Mesh/Buildings.glbin vault
Global. Buildings are extruded from footprints, so an area with none reports no footprints rather than failing.
Produced Work, baked from ODbL footprints and CC-BY elevation.
Surface/Surfaces
The ground as CAD and BIM exchange geometry: contours, a triangulated surface, and the points to rebuild it natively.
- Contour lines with relief-adaptive intervals
Surface/Contours.dxfin vault - Civil 3D surface
Surface/Surface.landxmlin vault - 3D surface for the CAD-native route
Surface/Surface.dxfin vault - Points Revit triangulates into an editable toposurface
Surface/SurfacePoints.csvin vault
Global, wherever elevation is available.
CC-BY, derived from the same elevation model.
Site/Site model
The terrain and building massing together as one georeferenced BIM model, openable in Revit natively.
- IFC4 site model with terrain and massing
Site/Site.ifcin vault
Global, with the same footprint rule as the building mesh.
Produced Work, from the same sources as the terrain and building meshes.
Landcover/Land cover
What is on the ground rather than its shape: surface classes, water, vegetation height, and the material weights that paint a landscape.
- Land cover classes at 10 m
Landcover/LandCover.tifin vault - Water mask for flattening and shorelines
Landcover/WaterMask.tifin vault - Surface material weights for landscape painting
Landcover/MaterialWeights.tifin vault - Tree canopy height
Landcover/CanopyHeight.tifin vault - Tree positions and heights for scattering foliage
Landcover/TreePoints.csvin vault
Global. Canopy height has occasional gaps in the source tiles, and the manifest reports them rather than filling them in.
CC-BY (ESA WorldCover, Meta and WRI canopy), plus Produced Works derived from OpenStreetMap.
Flood/Flood zones
Regulatory flood hazard areas and base flood elevations, for feasibility and due diligence.
- FEMA flood zones
Flood/FloodZones.gpkgin vault
United States only. An area outside FEMA coverage is reported as uncovered, never as an empty result.
Public domain (FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer).
Core files now, the rest on request
- Your order downloads with the core set: the vector basemap, aerial imagery as tiles and a raw GeoTIFF, the elevation model, the 3D terrain tiles, and the vector features.
- Every other format in the catalog generates on request from your vault, at no extra cost and with no price impact. Nothing is upsold and nothing expires.
- Files are organized by layer, one folder per kind of data, with a manifest that records the source, the resolution, and the licence of everything inside.
- Where a layer genuinely has no data for your area, the manifest says so plainly instead of shipping an empty file.
geotiff dem · imagery cog · png heightmap · hillshade · slope · aspect · steep slope · dxf contours · landxml · surface dxf · surface points · glb · obj · usdz · buildings glb · ifc site model · gpkg · geojson · shapefile · flatgeobuf · pmtiles · imagery tiles · imagery drape · cesium 3d tiles · ndvi · land cover · water mask · material weights · canopy height · tree points · flood zones
Frequently asked
What data comes in a bundle?
Nine layers for the area you draw: elevation and the slope, aspect, and contour products built from it, aerial imagery, a vector basemap, editable vector features, terrain and building meshes, a BIM site model, land cover and vegetation, and United States flood zones. All of it is included with every order.
Do I have to choose which layers I want?
No. There is no picker and no bundle tier. Every order is entitled to the whole catalog, and the size of the area you draw is the only thing that sets the price.
Why does my download not contain all 31 formats?
The order downloads with the core files most people need first, which keeps the initial download small. Every remaining format is generated from your vault whenever you ask for it, at no extra cost, and it lands in the same folder layout.
Do you have building footprints for anywhere in the world?
Building coverage follows OpenStreetMap, so dense urban areas are well mapped and rural ones may have few or no footprints. When an area has none, the bundle says so rather than shipping an empty building model.
Can I use the vector features commercially?
Yes, with one condition. The vector features are delivered as a licensed Derivative Database under ODbL 1.0, so you keep attribution and pass the same licence on if you redistribute the data itself. The rasters and meshes have no such condition.
What happens where a layer has no data for my area?
The manifest records the reason explicitly, separating a genuinely empty result from an area the source does not cover. Flood zones outside the United States are reported as uncovered, and nothing is silently dropped or padded.
Draw an area and take the whole catalog.
Every layer on this page comes with every order. Anything 2 km² and under is free.