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Modeling Cities and Landscapes in 3D with CityGML

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CityGML is the most important international standard used to model cities and landscapes in 3D with extensive semantics. Compared to BIM standards such as IFC, CityGML models are usually less detailed but they cover a much greater spatial extent. They are also available in any of five standardized levels of detail. CityGML serves as an exchange format and as a data source for visualizations, either in dedicated applications or in a web browser. It can also be used for a wide range of spatial analyses, such as visibility studies and solar potential. Ongoing research will improve the integration of BIM standards with CityGML, making improved data exchange possible throughout the life-cycle of urban and environmental processes.

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    http://xerces.apache.org

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    https://github.com/tudelft3d/val3dity

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    http://www.web3d.org/x3d/what-x3d

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    https://developers.google.com/kml/

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    https://www.khronos.org/collada/

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    http://gun.teipir.gr/VRML-amgem/spec/index.html

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    http://cesiumjs.org/

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    http://www.openwebglobe.org

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    http://www.webglearth.org/

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    https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF

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    https://cesiumjs.org/convertmodel.html

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    http://www.gbxml.org/

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    Ken Arroyo Ohori, Kavisha Kumar, Hugo Ledoux & Jantien Stoter

  2. Department of Architecture, School of Design & Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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Arroyo Ohori, K., Biljecki, F., Kumar, K., Ledoux, H., Stoter, J. (2018). Modeling Cities and Landscapes in 3D with CityGML. In: Borrmann, A., König, M., Koch, C., Beetz, J. (eds) Building Information Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92862-3_11

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