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Representing San Francisco City Hall in simple 3D building
Posted by Chetan_Gowda on 22 May 2017 in English.Last weekend, I tried modelling San Francisco City Hall in S3DB. The public building has 100 years of glorious history. The diameter of the central dome is around 34 m and total height of the building is 93 m.
From Wikipedia
The co-ordinates of the building is 37.77910°N/122.41937°W. Edited this model first through OSM Sandbox and copied all the geometries and tags to main OSM database. I used JOSM current version and Kendzi3D plugin to visualise locally.
Before Simple 3D tags
Visualised in JOSM Kendzi3D plugin
After adding Simple 3D tags
Photo credits: At Flickr by Thomas Hawk
Rendering
1. F4Map
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2. OSMBuildings
Click here for demo
I’d love to see many places in OpenStreetMap in 3D. If you have any questions, ping me @chtnha on twitter or OSM message.
Discussion
Comment from ika-chan! on 22 May 2017 at 16:06
This is pretty impressive, but I wonder which renderers support multiple balconies over many floors, in the same location, as in those in tower blocks in London?
Comment from PlaneMad on 22 May 2017 at 19:25
Very cool output! How long does it take to model a building of this complexity?
Comment from Chetan_Gowda on 23 May 2017 at 06:40
@ika-chan! can you point me any links to blocks in London? I’d love to see their structures.
@planemad, As it was a weekend project, I dedicated merely 3-4 hours in modelling and understanding tags, relations, and rendering both in F4Map and OSMBuildings.
Comment from ika-chan! on 23 May 2017 at 15:27
@Chetan_Gowda Assuming that I can’t link to Google, the tower blocks at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/33851053, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/402995973, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/220641100 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/220641101.
Comment from umbrek on 24 May 2017 at 07:20
Wow super zrobione budynki w 3d :-)
Comment from ashleyannmathew on 26 May 2017 at 04:16
Looks great! I am very interested in learning about modeling 3D buildings @Chetan_Gowda
Comment from Chetan_Gowda on 26 May 2017 at 11:36
@ika-chan! Thanks for pointing. I looked for these buildings pictures, they are tall and good to map in 3D. One important thing missing is Mapillary coverage around them or Wikipedia pages.
@umbrek Thank you!
@ashleyannmathew amazing! Please look into Simple 3D buildings wiki to get an idea.
Comment from Karthoo on 27 May 2017 at 20:52
Hey, I recently 3D-mapped the curch of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. It was my first larger 3D building and it seemed not very hard to model it for me. I hope other people will also add 3D models to some important landmarks which are still flat on the maps. :) http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=41.8974814&lon=12.4983324&zoom=19&camera.theta=45.05&camera.phi=-115.268
Comment from Chetan_Gowda on 28 May 2017 at 08:38
That looks amazing @doktorpixel14. It’d be very nice to see the Church with roof or building colour.