Al Bawaba

A planet in 3D: First map of all 2.75 billion buildings on Earth unveiled

ALBAWABA - For the first time in history, people are able to view all buildings on Earth in high quality via a new 3D map that was developed by German s ...

All the world's buildings available as 3D models for urban and climate research

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

Literally a Map Showing All the Buildings in the World

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.
9to5google

Google updated Maps, Earth 3D/2D imagery for 40% of the world’s population in the past year

For Earth Day 2017, Google Earth rather appropriately received a huge revamp that dropped the desktop app for a web client, redesigned the mobile apps, and added several features to better explore the ...
Gizmodo

Startup’s Proposed Satellite Swarm Would Create 3D Maps of Earth’s Entire Surface

NUVIEW's satellite constellation will use LiDAR to create its 3D maps, which could prove beneficial to farmers and urban planners. Reading time 2 minutes Satellites flying overhead in Earth’s orbit ...
Yahoo

Google Maps dumps its flat view of the Earth for a fully 3D globe

Google has been on a roll with new features for its Maps service this week, from matching users to restaurants that they might like to adding battery percentage to location sharing. Rather than settle ...
nerdist

Interactive 3D Map Offers Unique Insight into Earthquakes

It’s time to add another treasure to our folder of enlightening scientific visualizations, which has grown thick over the past few years thanks in large part to researchers attempting to understand ...
Google Earth Blog

Google Earth 3D imagery progress

Google has recently released a new batch of 3D imagery. The last major release was in early February. Thank you to all the GEB readers that contribute by finding new areas and drawing outlines. Below ...
Business Wire

Marble Visions Initiates Development of 3D Earth Observation Satellite System in Joint Venture with NTT DATA, PASCO, and Canon Electronics

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader, and Marble Visions Inc., a provider of advanced Earth observation(EO) satellite services, today announce that Marble ...
VentureBeat

Google Maps gets high-resolution 3D imagery for New York and San Francisco, coming to more cities in 2015

Google began rolling out new high-resolution 3D imagery today on both Google Maps and Google Earth, starting with New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. The company is promising more cities ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

First high-resolution 3D map covering all of Earth’s 2.75 billion buildings unveiled

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

First high-resolution 3D map of Earth’s 2.75 billion buildings unveiled

Scientists in Germany have, for the first time, produced the most comprehensive digital representation of the world’s built environment by compiling a high-resolution, three-dimensional dataset ...