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

From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

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.

Google’s goal has long been to “add a 3D model of every building on the planet to Google Earth” and, with the help of you and me, they continue to make strides toward that goal. In the five years ...

Last week Nathan Weinberg wrote at his InsideGoogle blog comparing Google Earth’s 3D model of the Miami SuperBowl Stadium verses the one in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth 3D (VE3D). He made some pretty ...

GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models“. Earth System Science Data (ESSD). DOI: 10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025 ...

Multipath is a major source of positioning accuracy degradation in urban areas. Advances in 3D mapping and the availability of 3D city models have encouraged a set of new techniques for multipath ...

[Photo: courtesy MVRDV] The firm’s brief called for two buildings, neither of which needed any windows whatsoever: a large indoor theme park and a dance club. “The design . . . therefore arises from a ...

It’s a tabletop version of London colour-coded for architects. In this view of the interactive model of the city, unveiled yesterday at The Building Centre in London, red and yellow sections represent ...