Buildings Canada Sample

**Overview**
Buildings Canada contains representations of building footprints that are enriched with detailed characteristics such as area, centroid latitude and longitude, building type, and elevation.
This is a free sample of Buildings Canada product and covers the Greater Toronto, ON area. This represents a subset of the full product’s geographic extent. The full commercial offering covers the entire country of Canada. Contact [e-mail] for more information on licensing the product

**Use cases**
**Risk Analysis**
Identifying the location of a building can validate the placement of insured structures within a parcel, helping to understand exposure to risks such as wildfire, fault lines, and shoreline proximity
**Market Analysis**
Performing network planning and managing assets by using building footprint shapes and densities to optimize signal coverage, identify obstructions for microwave- or millimeter-wave networks, and determining how signals will penetrate buildings based on construction data

**Product details**
Companies that use building data in their daily operations realize new ways to enhance capabilities, improve services, and aid in use cases such as:

**Insurance**
- Identifying the location of a building can validate the placement of insured structures within a parcel, helping to understand exposure to risks such as wildfire, fault lines, and shoreline proximity
- Performing analyses of building proximity to fire stations, police stations, and crime-prone areas to determine which properties to insure, and to provide appropriate premium rates
- Assessing affected properties after a risk event to estimate total loss
- Managing policies in force by understanding over- or under-concentration of policies in high-risk areas
- Identifying fraudulent claims

**Telecommunications**
- Updating service areas by identifying serviceable locations for unserved or underserved properties, providing potential for increased subscribership, or extension of new services to existing customers
- Performing network planning and managing assets by using building footprint shapes and densities to optimize signal coverage, identify obstructions for microwave- or millimeter-wave networks, and determining how signals will penetrate buildings based on construction data
- Performing risk modeling and assessing the vulnerability of network infrastructure to ensure resilience during weather risk events
- Reducing the costs of expensive on-site physical inspections

**Additional Insights**
https://www.precisely.com/data-guide/products/buildings

https://help.precisely.com/r/p/Buildings-Canada/pub/Latest/en-US/Buildings-Canada-Product-Guide