Gizmodo: “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, which is about 30 times finer than comparable databases, according to the researchers in a statement. A detailed account of how the map was created was also published in the journal Earth System Science Data on December 1…”