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.
With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first ...
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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 ...
A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...
It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...
World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...
In the late 1950s, a man by the name of Constant Nieuwenhuys was at work on a radical idea. The Dutch artist was busy sketching ideas for the New Babylon, a utopian society where man and woman were ...
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