Capability
LiDAR
AvailableA photograph tells you what is there. A laser tells you how tall it is, which way it faces and how the ground falls away from it. These are the measurements that need the point cloud — delivered as ordinary columns, with no point cloud for you to process.
74
LiDAR-derived columns, of 93
3,378,826
Houses measured
96 / 102
Counties with LiDAR
91.6%
Share of Illinois houses
Illinois, Florida, Texas, New York, Colorado, Arizona, California and Pennsylvania today — National coverage arrives in Q4. Email team@oklocate.com if you would like your state prioritised.
See a sample house
The survey's own return for one building — every point the aircraft recorded, in your browser. Drag to rotate.
Illinois, Florida, Texas, New York, Colorado, Arizona, California and Pennsylvania for now — and not every address has a cloud; they are exported county by county. National coverage arrives in Q4.
This demo covers Illinois and Florida.
What the point cloud is worth
The detached-structure detector was measured twice against the same hand-checked labels — once with LiDAR yard features fused in, once from imagery alone. Nothing but the input differs, which makes the gap a real measurement rather than an argument.
Imagery + LiDAR
89.7%
precision · 83.3% recall
Imagery alone
81.5%
precision · 78.1% recall
8.2 points of precision, on the same properties and the same labels. That is the clearest number we have for what the point cloud contributes, and it is why the 96 counties with LiDAR are flagged separately on the coverage map instead of being averaged in.
What the laser measures
Grouped by what you would use them for. Every one of these needs elevation — none can be read off a photograph.
Detectors2
Detached structure, Detached structure confidence
Roof geometry12
Roof height (median), Roof height (p90), Roof height (max), Roof pitch proxy, Roof planarity…
Per-face solar17
Best solar tier reached, Mountable area, south-facing, Mountable area, south plus east/west, Mountable area, any orientation, Mountable area, flat roof…
Insurance4
Building height, Canopy points within 5 ft, Canopy points within 30 ft, Defensible space
Terrain and drainage4
Lot slope, Lot relief, Lot aspect, Grade to house
Vegetation and fuels6
Canopy cover, Tallest tree, Roof overhang ratio, Low vegetation, Medium vegetation…
Pool confirmation2
Largest lot void area, Largest lot void compactness
Roof reflectance5
Roof intensity (median), Roof intensity (relative p10), Roof intensity (relative p90), Roof intensity variation, Roof patch fraction
Yard features16
Lot point density, Lot share, building class, Lot share, high vegetation, Lot share, ground, Lot share, tall returns…
Where coverage stops
96 of 102 Illinois counties have LiDAR, covering 3,378,826 of 3,688,846 houses. In the rest, these columns are omitted from the response rather than returned as null — so you can tell "no detached structure" from "we cannot see one here" without guessing.
Building height is the one exception within LiDAR counties: it is filled on 3,480,041 houses rather than all 3,378,826, because the footprint and the return have to agree before a height means anything.
Source: Illinois Height Modernization Program LiDAR · Public domain · Varies by county
How to get it
LiDAR is not sold on its own. The measurements arrive inside whichever product suits how you work.
Other products
Property profile
One address in, every measurement we hold for that house.
Property search
The same measurements, asked of a whole population at once.
Aerial imagery
30cm imagery and spectral overlays, as tiles on your own map.
Mapping
An OpenStreetMap basemap with no egress fees.
Geocoding
Address to coordinate and back, for all fifty states.
Typeahead (autocomplete)
The dropdown that completes an address as someone types.