All the world's buildings available as 3D models for the first time
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With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at TUM has created the first high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide.

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. The open data provides a crucial basis for climate research and the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. They enable more precise models for urbanization, infrastructure and disaster management – and help to make cities around the world more inclusive and resilient.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    And their point is not to have a detailed and end user friendly dataset, just a global one,

    Just want to stack up on this. I deal with building footprint data all the time and what I can positively say is that you get what you pay for.

    The MS building footprint layer is crap. But at least it exists.

    • infeeeee@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Yes the headline is clickbait and misleading, this data is not usable for anything to us mortals, it’s for researchers who need very low quality data but for global calculations.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Yeah I’m very certain I’m going to get a very annoying “why are we still paying for building footprints” slack message citing this as soon as it dribbles out to the normies.