SKYDB Building database

Tall buildings worldwide, with heights, construction status and the companies involved.

Rankings of tall buildings

Tall Building Markets

Tall buildings, tracked.

SKYDB is collecting verifiable information about buildings.

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edition

A version of a boundary set, kept so that data measured against an earlier version stays interpretable.

An edition marks a version of a set of boundaries rather than a place. Statistical agencies redraw units between censuses, and a figure measured against one drawing does not apply to another.

Keeping the edition lets a value stay attached to the geography it was actually measured on, instead of being silently reattributed to a boundary that did not exist yet.

It is an administrative record inside SKYDB and not a unit anyone governs or lives in.