Open 3D city models of over 300 Japanese cities (PLATEAU)

Name: Open 3D city models of over 300 Japanese cities (PLATEAU)
Published: 2023

Tools & geometry

Japan's national open CityGML city models: LOD1 buildings with heights everywhere and LOD2 in many core districts (e.g. central Tokyo), in CityGML, 3D Tiles, OBJ and other formats; ready-made realistic geometry for CFD of Japanese cities.

Get the data

PLATEAU data portal Dataset index (G-Spatial CKAN) Tokyo 23 wards Project page

Licence: Public Data License 1.0 (compatible with CC BY 4.0)
Formats: CityGML, OBJ

How to cite

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). (2023). Open 3D city models of over 300 Japanese cities (PLATEAU) [Data set]. https://front.geospatial.jp/plateau_portal_site/

Please also cite the publication below that describes it.

Details

Resource: Geometry
Geometry: City scale, Realistic neighbourhood
Location: Japan (e.g. Tokyo), Japan · more from Japan
Year: 2023
Institution: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)
Contact: Project PLATEAU

Linked publications

Papers that describe or use this resource.

Role of 3D city model data as open digital commons: a case study of openness in Japan's digital twin "Project PLATEAU" (2023)

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