Houston site analysis diagrams

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Enter an address inside the City of Houston limits and sitedia draws 21 site analysis panels for a circle or square of up to 1 mile around it — figure-ground, land use, building age, building height, parks, tree canopy, streets, transit, terrain and sky view; sun & shadow, wind and thermal comfort run as simulations. Houston has no zoning ordinance, so the zoning panel is not drawn there; the other 21 panels are.

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Sample diagrams — Rice University

Figure-ground diagram, Rice University, Houston, ½-mile radius — Figure-ground — Rice University, ½-mile radius.

Land use diagram, Rice University, Houston, ½-mile radius — Land use — Rice University, ½-mile radius.

Building age diagram, Rice University, Houston, ½-mile radius — Building age — Rice University, ½-mile radius.

Building height diagram, Rice University, Houston, ½-mile radius — Building height — Rice University, ½-mile radius.

Parks and open space diagram, Rice University, Houston, ½-mile radius — Parks and open space — Rice University, ½-mile radius.

Tree canopy diagram, Rice University, Houston, ½-mile radius — Tree canopy — Rice University, ½-mile radius.

Building data in Houston

Building footprints inside the city limits	636,576 (Overture Maps, including garages and sheds)
With year built	94.6%
With land use	89.4%
Trees panel	checked against the City's street tree inventory: 91.0% of street trees fall on detected canopy

Counted on 2026-10-06 from sitedia's own building database. Buildings with no matching record are drawn grey and labelled Unknown. Coverage for every city: Data sources.

Sources used in Houston

Data	Publisher
Year built · lots · address	Harris Central Appraisal District · Texas Geographic Information Office
Land use	City of Houston GIS · Harris Central Appraisal District
Parks (Details)	City of Houston, Houston Parks and Recreation
Street class (Details)	City of Houston, Planning and Development
Bus stops — locations, names and routes (Transit panel and Details)	Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
METRORail stations and names	OpenStreetMap contributors

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Free: generating and viewing the diagram set and PNG downloads (one at a time or as a ZIP, 1000–4000 px). Pro: editable SVG, colors and category toggles, the Details window and Breakdown, 3D building mass (GLB, 3DM, SKP), DXF, and the sun & shadow, wind and thermal comfort simulations — $9.99 for 3 months or $19.99 for a year (Plans).

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