GlobalMLBuildingFootprints VS USBuildingFootprints

Well, that is simply wrong. In the course of trying to find the source of my raster, I have discovered Google's Open Buildings project which covers the whole of Africa and part of Asia, and Microsoft's global ML building footprints which has much more extensive coverage.

What you describe is exactly what Microsoft's Global ML Building Footprints repository on Github https://github.com/microsoft/GlobalMLBuildingFootprints

It’s not public domain, it’s licensed under the ODbL

A large majority of the elevations and building footprints donated to OpenStreetMap worldwide were contributed by Microsoft over the past 5 years from Bing Maps. Microsoft now also incorporates OpenStreetMap data into Bing Maps.

https://github.com/microsoft/GlobalMLBuildingFootprints/

I believe you're looking for the microsoft footprints. They're hosted on github as geojsons. You can download individual states and countries. Here's the US: https://github.com/microsoft/USBuildingFootprints

Microsoft is good for building footprints, but a little old. I think that's was Illinois' data is based on.

https://github.com/microsoft/USBuildingFootprints but then combining with some height data : https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=3b0b8cf27ffb49e2a2c8370f9806f267

bing building footprints: https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints

When looking for some specific features shapefiles like parcels, buildings,..etc. you usually end up with either nothing, partial information (like trying to query building with specific types of stages in OSMNX) or with shapefiles that lack an attribute table ( this link for example you can download buildings foot prints for almost all the cities around the world but the ones in the ME lack attribute table: GitHub - microsoft/USBuildingFootprints: Computer generated building footprints for the United States ).

Simheaven also updated X-America few weeks ago. It now included open source Microsoft Footprint https://github.com/microsoft/USBuildingFootprints

If you just need some building footprints, Microsoft has an open dataset available for download. https://github.com/microsoft/USBuildingFootprints