Autodesk and the Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) at Salzburg University announced today a cooperation on a Digital Cities research project. According to the press release, Salzburg will be the first city worldwide fully covered with such a 3D-model:
Imagine a combined digital ecosystem that can capture, analyze, and visualize projects on a city and regional scale—an open platform that supports secure and robust integration of CAD; building information modeling (BIM); and geospatial, simulation, and visualization data.
I don’t know the details of Autodesk’s Digital Cities, but as I read the short descriptions it’s aimed to become the Swiss army knife of city planning. Unlike so many other 3D-models, which look impressing at a first glance, Digital Cities doesn’t only scratch on a city’s surface but integrates all underlying information and data a city is built on. That’s truly an ambitious project. [via OTS]
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