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Gainesville: City Time Machine
Watch the built-up surface of a city change. Explore historical GHSL snapshots within a fixed study window. Newly built-up surface appears between source epochs; cells do not date individual buildings.
© European Union, 1995–2026. GHSL GHS-BUILT-S R2023A, V1-0. CC BY 4.0. Cropped and transformed to geographic polygons by MapifyStats; original square-metre values retained. · Source release, rights & limitations
Gainesville: 13.89 km² of estimated built-up surface in the 1600 km² fixed window at source epoch 1975; +0.00 km² since 1975.
| Place / record | Value | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Gainesville | 13.89 km² built-up | |
| Change since 1975 | 0 km² |
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© European Union, 1995–2026. GHSL GHS-BUILT-S R2023A, V1-0. CC BY 4.0. Cropped and transformed to geographic polygons by MapifyStats; original square-metre values retained. · Source release, rights & limitations
Start in 1975. The same 1,600 square-kilometre study window follows the city at every epoch.
© European Union, 1995–2026. GHSL GHS-BUILT-S R2023A, V1-0. CC BY 4.0. Cropped and transformed to geographic polygons by MapifyStats; original square-metre values retained. · Source release, rights & limitations
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Gainesville: 13.89 km² of estimated built-up surface in the 1600 km² fixed window at source epoch 1975; +0.00 km² since 1975.
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| Place / record | Value | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Gainesville | 13.89 km² built-up | |
| Change since 1975 | 0 km² |
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Sources, rights & limitations
© European Union, 1995–2026. GHSL GHS-BUILT-S R2023A, V1-0. CC BY 4.0. Cropped and transformed to geographic polygons by MapifyStats; original square-metre values retained. Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain), U.S. Census Bureau/us-atlas (public domain). Ancient Earth uses the reconstructed source-model land instead.
Data release: ghsl-r2023a-v1-0-tallahassee-gainesville-1km. Retrieved 2026-10-04. Commercial use: approved. Export rights: approved-with-attribution.
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- https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/GHSL/GHS_BUILT_S_GLOBE_R2023A/GHS_BUILT_S_E2005_GLOBE_R2023A_54009_1000/V1-0/tiles/GHS_BUILT_S_E2005_GLOBE_R2023A_54009_1000_V1_0_R6_C11.zip
- https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/GHSL/GHS_BUILT_S_GLOBE_R2023A/GHS_BUILT_S_E2010_GLOBE_R2023A_54009_1000/V1-0/tiles/GHS_BUILT_S_E2010_GLOBE_R2023A_54009_1000_V1_0_R6_C11.zip
- https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/GHSL/GHS_BUILT_S_GLOBE_R2023A/GHS_BUILT_S_E2015_GLOBE_R2023A_54009_1000/V1-0/tiles/GHS_BUILT_S_E2015_GLOBE_R2023A_54009_1000_V1_0_R6_C11.zip
- https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/GHSL/GHS_BUILT_S_GLOBE_R2023A/GHS_BUILT_S_E2020_GLOBE_R2023A_54009_1000/V1-0/tiles/GHS_BUILT_S_E2020_GLOBE_R2023A_54009_1000_V1_0_R6_C11.zip
- Fixed 40×40 km equal-area study windows aligned to GHSL cells; these are not municipal boundaries.
- 1 km source cells describe estimated built-up surface, not individual buildings or construction dates.
- 1975–2020 values combine satellite observations and modelling/interpolation. 2025 and 2030 projections are excluded.
- Presentation can blend cells between snapshots; numerical summaries always use the labelled source epoch.
- Local shoreline, classification uncertainty, and corrections can create decreases. Missing cells remain unknown.
Units: builtSurface: m² · summary: km² · cellSize: 1000 m.
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