Every cell of about 90 m around your site, coloured by the period in which it became built-up, from 1975 to 2020. It shows the historic core, the waves of expansion and the recent edge in one drawing, from the European Commission Global Human Settlement Layer.
When each cell around the site became built-up, across ten epochs from 1975 to 2020 in five-year steps.
GHS-BUILT-S R2023A from the European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0): the built-up surface in every cell, worldwide.
Only the tiles that cover your frame are read from each epoch, in the browser.
Put it next to the figure-ground and the fabric by footprint size: the periods of growth usually match changes in grain.
Untouched exports from real sites. Free drawings carry a watermark; Pro and Max drawings are marked.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. The images are MapToNap output.
From GHS-BUILT-S R2023A, part of the Global Human Settlement Layer of the European Commission Joint Research Centre, released under CC BY 4.0. It gives the built-up surface of every cell of about 90 m, worldwide, for ten epochs from 1975 to 2020.
No. It shows when each cell of about 90 m became built-up, which describes the growth of districts. For the age of individual buildings, use local historical maps or cadastral records.
Yes. The dataset is global, so the drawing works in any city.
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