October 23, 2011

Creating 3D buildings from OpenStreetMap data

It is fairly easy to create 3D buildings from OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps, essentially by extruding the 2D footprint polygons to 3D.

For the procedure using OSGeo software, see

http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Extrude_2D_polygons_to_3D

3 comments:

jachym said...

It still works!

markusN said...

Yes, absolutely! We maintain it like a pet :)

!i! said...

Pretty nice, but you should check this out :)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/3D_Development