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 ...
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 ...
The Washington Post

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...