# Google 3d tile map features (buildings vs terrain)

**URL:** <https://community.cesium.com/t/google-3d-tile-map-features-buildings-vs-terrain/33047>\
**Category:** CesiumJS\
**Created:** [June 13, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/google-3d-tile-map-features-buildings-vs-terrain/33047 "2024-06-13T05:00:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![techtruth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/techtruth/32/23999_2.png) [@techtruth](https://community.cesium.com/u/techtruth)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/google-3d-tile-map-features-buildings-vs-terrain/33047/1 "2024-06-13T05:00:48Z")

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> [@Google 3D Tiles dataset projection](https://community.cesium.com/t/google-3d-tiles-dataset-projection/25526):
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> Hello Everyone! I am completey new to unreal & cesium, appologies in advance! We are using Unreal engine to stream Google 3D Tiles with Cesium. We can not figure out how to project a dataset on the Google 3D Tile Geometry or even better, colorize the models. We were able to colorize OSM Buildings (Picture) but they are not matching the Google Tiles. When I try to drape over the google 3D Tiles the format is not supported. We looked at many of the Tutorials but neither we found could would lead…

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

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**Author:** ![Gabby\_Getz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/gabby_getz/32/7838_2.png) [@Gabby\_Getz](https://community.cesium.com/u/Gabby_Getz)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/google-3d-tile-map-features-buildings-vs-terrain/33047/2 "2024-06-18T13:30:50Z")

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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](https://cesium.com/learn/cesiumjs-learn/cesiumjs-clipping-polygons/).