As you all know, 3dbuildings is a reliable source for comprehensive global building data. Because of your continued support, we’ve been able to push the boundaries of building data since 2018. In the coming months, we’ll be undergoing some changes, particularly when it comes to our company name. We’re happy…

Those who have counted with us last months might have guessed it — we’ve surpassed the 1 billion mark! Our latest addition, buildings from Africa, has bumped our data count to over one billion buildings. Credit for this amazing milestone goes to everyone who was involved in this huge effort…

We’re happy to announce the first version of 3dbuildings Global Height. Since early days of our business, building height has been the most requested information attribute. Besides footprint, it’s the information that’s needed to turn flat geometry into 3d. Global Height creates an impression about surroundings when marketing real estate…

OpenStreetMap data is free and available from many providers. That is true and also wrong. We at 3d buildings are not only using OpenStreetMap as a data source but also complementing from many other data sets. Read more The extend of processing OpenStreetMap data and complementing it is unique today.

こんにちは (Konnichiwa) Our latest building data import is from the country of rising sun — Japan! Registration with authorities and download procedures are a little more complex in Japanese. Also file formats are, let’s say, very traditional XML structures. We’ve had quite some scripting work to do but it’s been clearly worth…

One of the largest marketplaces for data is Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. Therefore we are pleased to offer 3dbuildings data there. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace enables customers to find the right data and services for purchase on their platform. It offers a wide range of pricing models and…

In GIS, the most common way to get a feeling about a data set and to assess its quality is visual inspection. Artefacts or plausibility errors are easy to detect this way. In 3d, things also look nice. We’d like to show you how to achieve this in QGIS. QGIS…

With the latest updates to our database, we can now offer an incredible 99% coverage for the great nation of España. As we start opening our advent calendars, work continues at a pace here in 3dbuildings Berlin HQ. Latest job has been to integrate the official building data set of…

Deutschland is kind of a big deal when it comes to big data, but that doesn’t mean that it’s easy to work with. Until now. State of the nation In Germany, the accumulation and monitoring of geodata is the duty of the sixteen federal states. The states maintain all the sources and have an…