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3D mapping of the territory: uses, data, and examples

3D mapping of the territory: uses, data, and examples

3D mapping of the territory: uses, data, and examples

Short answer

3D territorial mapping consists of representing a city, a neighborhood, or an infrastructure within a three-dimensional digital environment. It allows for the visualization of urban forms, buildings, public spaces, infrastructure, and useful data to understand, compare, and make decisions on a territorial scale.

3D territorial mapping consists of representing a city, a neighborhood, or an infrastructure within a three-dimensional digital environment. It allows for the visualization of urban forms, buildings, public spaces, infrastructure, and useful data to understand, compare, and make decisions on a territorial scale.

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territorial 3D mapping / modeled city

What is 3D territory mapping?

What is 3D territory mapping?

What is 3D territory mapping?

3D mapping of the territory is a digital volume representation of the urban space. It associates built forms, reliefs, infrastructure, and public spaces with geographic, urban, and project data. It allows for a territory to be read in its actual context, crossing information and making the issues more understandable for elected officials, technicians, partners, and citizens.

3D mapping of the territory is a digital volume representation of the urban space. It associates built forms, reliefs, infrastructure, and public spaces with geographic, urban, and project data. It allows for a territory to be read in its actual context, crossing information and making the issues more understandable for elected officials, technicians, partners, and citizens.

Why map a city in 3D?

Why map a city in 3D?

Why map a city in 3D?

Understanding the territory

Reading volumes, usages, constraints, and urban continuities in a single medium.

Share a common vision

Aligning elected officials, technical teams, partners, and residents around a shared visual understanding.

Analyze urban projects

Compare scenarios, map out operations, and make their impacts more understandable.

Facilitate consultation

Explaining urban transformations using materials that are easy for non-expert audiences to understand.

Follow the city's evolution

Document shifts, enrich the 3D database, and preserve an operational memory of the territory.

What data should be integrated into a 3D map?

What data should be integrated into a 3D map?

What data should be integrated into a 3D map?

A 3D map can integrate buildings, roadways, public spaces, vegetation, infrastructure, mobility flows, land data, future projects, technical constraints, and GIS data. The challenge is to structure this information so that it becomes legible, reliable, and usable within a shared territorial environment.

A 3D map can integrate buildings, roadways, public spaces, vegetation, infrastructure, mobility flows, land data, future projects, technical constraints, and GIS data. The challenge is to structure this information so that it becomes legible, reliable, and usable within a shared territorial environment.

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Urban data integrated into 3D mapping

3D mapping, GIS, and digital twin: what are the differences?

3D mapping, GIS, and digital twin: what are the differences?

3D mapping, GIS, and digital twin: what are the differences?

GIS

Organizes, cross-references, and analyzes geographic data to understand a territory.

3D mapping

Makes the territory legible in volume and context, with a shareable visual representation.

Local digital twin

Add business use cases, scenarios, simulations, and collaboration tools around the 3D database.

Understanding the link with the local digital twin.

How does Vectuel produce and use 3D mapping?

How does Vectuel produce and use 3D mapping?

How does Vectuel produce and use 3D mapping?

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Data collection and structuring: plans, GIS repositories, technical constraints, and field sources.

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Production of reliable 3D cities: buildings, infrastructure, public spaces and decision-making tools.

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Integration into a 3D web platform to make the mapping searchable, shareable, and actionable.

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Professional enrichment: mobility, land management, programming, urban planning, heritage, environment, and public consultation.

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Distribution to elected officials, technicians, partners, and citizens according to the uses and phases of the project.

3D mapping relies first and foremost on the production of reliable 3D cities.

Examples of Vectuel achievements

Examples of Vectuel achievements

Examples of Vectuel achievements

Project image - Euroméditerranée

Euroméditerranée

A complex urban territory to represent, understand, and share with stakeholders.

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Nantes Métropole

Mobility and infrastructure projects made easy to understand thanks to territorial 3D.

Project image - InspiRe Clermont

City of Orly

An urban transformation and mobility project accompanied by educational 3D materials.

Associated Vectuel solutions

Associated Vectuel solutions

Associated Vectuel solutions

DATA

Urban Mappr

Urban Story

Urban VR

Frequently Asked Questions

It is a three-dimensional digital representation of a city, a neighborhood, an infrastructure, or a major urban project, enriched with data useful for analysis and decision-making.

A GIS organizes and analyzes geographic data. 3D mapping makes this data readable in volume and context to facilitate understanding by diverse audiences.

It helps to visualize what currently exists, explain projects, compare scenarios, prepare for public consultation, and share a common vision of the territory.

We can integrate buildings, roadways, public spaces, vegetation, infrastructure, GIS data, mobility flows, technical constraints, and future projects.

Yes. It makes urban transformations more understandable, allows projects to be situated within their real environment, and facilitates dialogue with residents.

Yes. Future projects can be integrated into the 3D model to compare scenarios, anticipate impacts, and explain development choices.

3D mapping often provides the visual and spatial foundation for the territorial digital twin. The twin adds business uses, scenarios, simulations, and collaboration to it.

Vectuel supports data collection, the production of 3D cities, integration into a 3D web platform, business enrichment, and dissemination to the public concerned.

Bring your territorial data to life.

Bring your territorial data to life.

Bring your territorial data to life.

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