European Edifice Heights

Europe's basis observation programme Copernicus has released edifice meridian information for all of Europe's major cities. Using the Urban Atlas interactive map y'all tin thought as well as download the edifice information for the working capital missive of the alphabet cities of all 31 countries inwards the EU as well as European Free Trade Association.

The edifice heights information on the interactive map consists of a ten one thousand x ten one thousand resolution raster layer. The edifice heights were derived from stereo images from Cartosat-1, a stereoscopic public observation satellite as well as the information comes from the reference twelvemonth 2012. You tin download the edifice information for each working capital missive of the alphabet metropolis inwards ESRI shapefile format.

One quick observation I made amongst the map is noticing how exclusively a relatively minor expanse of primal London has tall buildings, specially compared amongst other European cities similar Paris. Londoner's  on the whole seem to similar living inwards 2 story houses rather than inwards floor buildings. They besides similar to moan nigh the lack of affordable housing.