MotM May 2020: 3D Map of Portland

Turns out the city of Portland, OR has a ton of spatial data available, and ESRI built a 3D map of the city. 

This uses the ESRI CityEngine to build a view of Portland. You can even change the direction of the sun!

Description From the Owner:

This web scene allows you to explore the central business district of the City of Portland, OR. It contains two types of 3D buildings: procedurally generated volumes with automated facade textures, and manually textured facades. Both created in CityEngine. 3D trees, where present, have accurate LiDAR-derived heights. Use the bookmark (star) icon to take a tour of different features in the city.

This web scene has been built using the 3D Cities Workflow 4.

Trees of Ann Arbor

Today is Earth Day so I thought I would get out a dashboard of Trees from the City of Ann Arbor.

Some of the data was tough going until I figured out that the X/Y coordinates were an actual system. I had a background image of a map and was messing with scales until I discoverd the State Plane System. Then things went quickly and I got the data converted to Lat/Long and cleaned up and grouped.

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