The Virtual 3D City Model of Berlin-Managing, Integrating, and Communicating Complex Urban Information

This contribution reports on concepts, implementation, and experience of the Berlin virtual 3D city model, a project that has developed a system for integrating, managing, integrating, presenting, and distributing complex urban geoinformation. It has been initiated by the Senate Department of Economics and the Senate Department of Urban Development in order to extend Berlin’s geodata infrastructure by a novel, flexible, and state-of-the-art geoinformation technology. As first applications, the virtual 3D city model forms core part of the investor information system hosted at the Berlin Business Location Center, and it represents the basis for ongoing projects in city planning at the architecture working group of the Senate Department of Urban Development.     «

This contribution reports on concepts, implementation, and experience of the Berlin virtual 3D city model, a project that has developed a system for integrating, managing, integrating, presenting, and distributing complex urban geoinformation. It has been initiated by the Senate Department of Economics and the Senate Department of Urban Development in order to extend Berlin’s geodata infrastructure by a novel, flexible, and state-of-the-art geoinformation technology. As first applications, the v...     »