The Evoluciã³N of Cities: Ai Helps Map Madrid and More

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A team of researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of Colorado Boulder has compiled a first-of-its-kind data set on 12 million buildings in Spanish cities dating back to 1900, and they hope it will help us better understand how cities have affected the environment over the years and what they'll look like in the future, Phys.org reports.

"Because the built environment is so intertwined with human lives and society, it's important to be able to analyze and study it," Keith Burghardt, one of the researchers, says in a press release.

"Prior to the 1980s, this type of data was hard to find.

So, when scientists learned of a large body of Spanish building data going back to 1900, they jumped at the chance to work with it."

HISDAC-ES: Historical Settlement Data Compilation for Spain (1900-2020), published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was compiled from old land records with " varying degrees of detail and completeness," Burghardt tells Phys.org.

"It was an enormous amount of interesting information about these buildings."

For example, the team was able to determine the age of a building, the type of building, how much space it took up, and the number of

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