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First high-resolution 3D map covering all of Earth’s 2.75 billion buildings unveiled

Scientists in Germany have, for the first time, created the most comprehensive digital representation of the world’s man-made ...

Literally a Map Showing All the Buildings in the World

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.

All the world's buildings available as 3D models for urban and climate research

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first ...
Newser on MSN

Researchers figure out how many buildings are on Earth

How many buildings are on our planet? Roughly 2.75 billion, as captured by a team from the Technical University of Munich.
Phys.org

Behind every COP is a global data project that predicts Earth's future—here's how it works

Over the past week we've witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP—or, more verbosely, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...
Al Bawaba

A planet in 3D: First map of all 2.75 billion buildings on Earth unveiled

ALBAWABA - For the first time in history, people are able to view all buildings on Earth in high quality via a new 3D map that was developed by German s ...