Yes I know that's not really a word. Here comes more analysis of Microsoft's massive database of buildings. I'm still focusing on California (10 million buildings is enough to deal with for now). Let's start with the distribution of the building sizes. Remember, these are the sizes of the footprints of the buildings (square footage … Continue reading The Averagest Building in California

In June, Microsoft released a huge database of every building in the United States. They trained a neural network to analyze satellite imagery, and used that to trace the shapes of buildings. This resulted in 125,192,184 computer generated building footprints. This is just the footprint - building heights are not part of the data. Here … Continue reading The Largest Footprints in California