January 2026
January 15th, 2026
New features
- Estimating Solar Rooftop Potential for select areas
- Informal settlement detection in urban areas
- A new model offering three-way classification created
- Urban morphology analyzed for select areas
Data changes
- New area available: Patan, Gujarat
- New area available: Churu, Rajasthan
- Several new attributes describe solar rooftop potential of buildings
- New attributes provide overview of heat exposure of buildings
- New attributes provide an overview of urban morphology around buildings
- Formal/Informal status and models confidence included in data
- Attributes describing proximity of buildings to certain Points of Interest provide granular insight for action plans
Platform changes
- Major redesign of the auxiliary pages: About, Glossary, Methodology, Contact and Changelog pages
- A new page highlighting past and ongoing Case Studies to pique your interest
- Major redesign of the popup window
- New colour scheme for the map page
- Highlighting informal areas on the map by different colours
- Industrial buildings highlighted by a dedicated colour
- Re-design of the menu sidebar
March 2025
March 28th, 2025
New feature
- Urban growth forecasted for years 2025->28 for Nairobi and the following cities in India: Greater Mumbai area, Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Jaipur and Kolkata
Platform changes
- Fixing spacing errors in some building categories
March 2025
March 12th, 2025
Data changes
- Update the list of geoparquet files available for download on the share page
Platform changes
- Handling multiple polygons when using the Upload Shapefile
- Redesigning the sidebar so that the menu options remain in the same place when the sidebar is expanded
- Fixing a bug around incorrectly caching shapefiles using the Upload Shapefile option
February 2025
February 13th, 2025
Data changes
- Change of the source for building heights to Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal Dataset to facilitate worldwide coverage
Platform changes
- Introducing Changelog to track platform and data related changes
- Revising the flow of the custom polygon creation on the map page
January 2025
January 30th, 2025
Platform changes
- Renaming APIs to seforall from an incorrect naming
- Fixing a problem with large districts not loading in Chrome
January 2025
January 16th, 2025
Data changes
- Introducing seven new states in India: Assam, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh
- Introducing a README file to OBI when downloading data
- Explicitly stating licensing of data
Platform changes
- Zipping downloadable data
December 2024
December 18th, 2024
Platform changes
- Change in the "Draw an Area" behavior allowing to move the map to the correct location before starting to draw a polygon
- Adding a customized loading screen for mobile devices
- Introducing tabs in the building related popup window, shrinking their size by organizing data into categories