Google 3d tile map features (buildings vs terrain)

My question is similar to the post above, but not the same.

I see in the very nice open 3d tiles spec that cesium uses that there is a place for tile content groups and group contents. file:///home/techtruth/Downloads/3d-tiles-reference-card-1.1-1.pdf

Does the google photorealistic 3d tiles api not provide that building and tree data along with their map tiles? I can’t seem to find it, but wanted to ask.

I want to remove certain buildings from a tile when i click on them in cesium. This seems easy enough to do with the open street map buildings, but they are not as pretty as the google maps tiles to me. haha

Hi there,

As far as I know, no, Google does not provide this metadata in their tileset.

You could however use metadata from another source to get the building footprint. With this polygon you can hide portions of Google 3D Photorealistic Tiles.