On September 27-28, 2016, Kanishk Chaturvedi and Zhihang Yao followed the invitation of Prof. Jantien Stoter and held a two-day course on the 3DCityDB and the browser-based 3D geovisualization in the 3DViz 2016 workshop at TU Delft. We have now published the course materials… [read more]

Today, the Chair of Geoinformatics of Technical University Munich (TUM) has, together with our development partners virtualcitySYSTEMS and M.O.S.S., finalized and released the new version 3.3 of the 3DCityDB. The 3D City Database is an Open Source software suite featuring… [read more]

The proposal by Chair of Geoinformatics called "Dynamizers" has been accepeted by OGC Future Cities Pilot Phase 1 (FCP1). FCP1 is an initiative by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), which aims at demonstrating and enhancing the ability of spatial data infrastructures to support… [read more]

Wolfgang Zahn (second from right) won the Runder Tisch GIS e.V. Geoinformatics Award with his Master's Thesis. The award worth 2000€ was granted on February 24th during the opening event of the Münchner GI-Runde 2016. His work, developed at the Chair of Geoinformatics during… [read more]

Our team at the Chair of Geoinformatics of Technische Universität München (TUM) has created and published a virtual 3D city model of New York City (NYC) that can freely be download from our project homepage. Also an Open Source 3D web viewer is provided allowing immediate… [read more]

The 3DCityDB Webclient developed by the Chair of Geoinformatics has been featured as a showcase on the homepage of Cesium. For more information and details, please refer to the web page at following link: https://cesiumjs.org/demos/3DCityDB.html Cesium Virtual Globe is an Open… [read more]

The 3DCityDB Webclient developed at the Chair of Geoinformatics won the first price in the 'Best Students Contribution' of the 'Web3D city modeling competition' (http://web3d2015.web3d.org/competition.html) under the annual ACM SIGGRAPH Web3D Conference. From all nine submitted… [read more]

The 3DCityDB Webclient developed by the Chair of Geoinformatics has been selected amongst the finalists of Web3D city modeling competition (http://web3d2015.web3d.org/competition.html ) under the annual ACM SIGGRAPH Web3D Conference. The competition involves the development of… [read more]

The Digital Landscape Architecture 2015 Conference which takes place in Dessau, Germany, June 04-06, 2015, accepted a paper written by members of the Chair of Geoinformatics. The title of the accepted paper is "Declarative indicator modeling for decision support based on 3D city… [read more]

The Chair of Geoinformatics organized a course on Digital Methods for the Built Environment within the Advanced Technology Higher Education Network Socrates (ATHENS) which was jointly conducted by the five Chairs collaborating in the Leonhard Obermeyer Center. Fifteen selected… [read more]