how to synthetically create a population within known structures?

[ajdamico]

if you have a population projection for a geography and you take the open street maps data for that locality, is there a good way to synthetically create a population within each structure?

https://ciesin.columbia.edu/data/hrsl/ Map this data onto leaflet, It’s averaged across 200m square grids I think

Most of this is not answering your question but it might help...the shapefiles can be downloaded from the links provided
I'm not sure if my api key for google is working...but if you are interested in open street maps then you can just do the same things but use the open street maps API and get_openstreetmap()...I did a similar thing for china and I used the baidu maps api, fun stuff.

I guess I could also make a zoomed in map which includes the population estimates overlaid on top of the satellite image

for US structures: https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints

related files.zip