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  2. Height restriction laws - Wikipedia

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    New building regulations that came in force in 2020, limited the height of buildings on cities depending on population in China.Cities with less than 3 million population cannot have structures rising above 250 m (820 ft); cities with populations greater than 3 million can have buildings up to a height of 500 m (1,600 ft).

  3. Google APIs - Wikipedia

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    The APIs provide functionality like analytics, machine learning as a service (the Prediction API) or access to user data (when permission to read the data is given). Another important example is an embedded Google map on a website, which can be achieved using the Static Maps API, [1] Places API [2] or Google Earth API. [3]

  4. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    The Google Maps API was free for commercial use, provided that the site on which it is being used is publicly accessible and did not charge for access, and was not generating more than 25,000 map accesses a day. [135] [136] Sites that did not meet these requirements could purchase the Google Maps API for Business. [137]

  5. Floor area ratio - Wikipedia

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    One of the purposes of the 1916 zoning ordinance of New York City was to prevent tall buildings from obstructing too much light and air. The 1916 zoning ordinance sought to control building size by regulating height and setback requirements for towers. In 1961, a revision to the zoning ordinance introduced the concept of floor area ratio (FAR).

  6. Height of Buildings Act of 1910 - Wikipedia

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    In response to the construction of the 164-foot (50-meter) Cairo Hotel in 1894, D.C. Commissioners issued height regulations for buildings in D.C., limiting their height to 90 feet (27 m) for residential and 110 feet (34 m) for business, or to the width of the street in front, whichever was smaller. [4]

  7. Skyscraper design and construction - Wikipedia

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    Building skyscrapers in an old and famous town can drastically alter the image of the city. In cities such as London [13] in the United Kingdom or San Francisco in the United States, [14] there is a legal requirement called protected view, which limits the height of new buildings within or adjacent to the sightline between the two places ...

  8. Interstate Highway standards - Wikipedia

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    An Interstate Highway under construction , with both directions of traffic moved to one side of the roadway I-94 in Michigan, showing examples of non-interchange overpass signage in median, upcoming exit signage on right shoulder, a pre-1960 overpass with height restriction signage, newly installed cable median barrier, and parallel grooved ...

  9. Benchmark (surveying) - Wikipedia

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    The position and height of each benchmark are shown on large-scale maps. The terms "height" and "elevation" are often used interchangeably, but in many jurisdictions, they have specific meanings; "height" commonly refers to a local or relative difference in the vertical (such as the height of a building), whereas "elevation" refers to the ...