Literally a Map Showing All the Buildings in the World

The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them all with a single glance.

A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany published the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. The map consists of 2.75 billion building models, which the team gathered from satellite images taken since 2019.

This is a huge leap from the previous global dataset, which contained about 1.7 billion buildings, and offers much better resolution,…