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 ...

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

Zhu noted that the map introduces a new metric called building volume per capita, a global indicator that measures total building mass per individual and highlights social and economic disparities ...

For the first time, researchers have assembled a complete digital picture of the world’s built environment, mapping every recorded building on Earth in three dimensions. The GlobalBuildingAtlas, ...

Archeologists have used drones and photogrammetry to create a map of the quarry that produced 95 of Easter Island's statues.

During the Siege in 1689, up to 30,000 Protestant supporters of King William III held the Walled City for 105 days in the ...

Rano Raraku, a steep-sided crater on the southeastern coast of Rapa Nui (as locals call the island), was the heart of moai ...

A research team from Munich has created an immense dataset of all structures in the world. It is intended to help with urban ...

A first-ever 3D model of the Rano Raraku quarry lets anyone examine Easter Island’s iconic statue workshop in vivid detail.

Scientists in Germany have, for the first time, created the most comprehensive digital representation of the world’s man-made ...