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World’s oldest 3D map found in a cave, and it’s interactive

A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now ...

Browse a 3D map of the world’s 2.75 billion buildings

However, the open-source project isn’t about bragging rights. With over 2.75 billion buildings detailed in the map, the ...
Hyperallergic

A Map Library Is Digitizing Its Rarest Globes as 3D Models

“Globes have a very low survival rate,” explained Ian Fowler, director of the Osher Map Library (OML) at the University of Southern Maine. Made to be touched and spun, globes wear down over the years, ...
New Atlas

Apple's Depth Pro model 3D maps 2D images in a fraction of a second

Apple's Machine Learning Research wing has developed a foundational AI model "for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation." Depth Pro enables high-speed generation of detailed 3D depth maps from a ...

Every building on Earth mapped in 3D: New map shows 2.75 billion structures — including yours

A new interactive map, GlobalBuildingAtlas, has been released, featuring 2.75 billion buildings in 3D worldwide. Developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich using satellite images ...
Phys.org

First-of-its-kind 3D model lets you explore Easter Island statues up close

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...