Last week I blogged about an extension to the OGC CityGML standard for utilities. Today at the Oracle Spatial User Conference the Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformationstechnik - Technische Universität Berlin, where Thomas Kolbe and his team are responsible for the CityGML specificiation, won an Oracle Spatial Excellence Award for Education and Research.
Berlin 3D City Model
I blogged about the 3D city model of Berlin before. The 3D City Database is a free 3D geo database to store, represent, and manage virtual 3D city models on top of a standard spatial relational database. The schema of the 3D City Database is based on the City Geography Markup Language (CityGML), an OGC standard for representing 3D city models. The 3D City Database was developed for the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Technologie und Frauen and the Berlin Partner GmbH. The 3D City Database has been implemented as an Oracle Spatial relational database schema. It is shipped as a collection of SQL scripts which allow for creating and dropping instances of the 3D City Database on top of an Oracle Spatial DBMS. The 3D City Database is open source and released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPL).
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