Title
Introducing the 3DCityDB-Tools Plug-In for QGIS
Author
Agugiaro, G. (TU Delft Urban Data Science) 
Pantelios, Konstantinos (Student TU Delft)
León Sánchez, C.A. (TU Delft Urban Data Science)
Yao, Zhihang (virtualcitySYSTEMS GmbH)
Nagel, Claus (virtualcitySYSTEMS GmbH)
Contributor
Kolbe, Thomas H. (editor)
Donaubauer, Andreas (editor)
Beil, Christof (editor)
Date
2024
Abstract
This paper introduces a new plug-in for QGIS that allows to connect to the free and open-source 3D City Database to load CityGML data, structured as classic GIS layers, into QGIS. The user is therefore not required to be a CityGML specialist, or a SQL expert, as the plug-in takes care of hiding from the user most of the complexity in terms of underlying data model and database schema implementation. The user can therefore load CityGML thematic “layers” (e.g. for buildings, bridges, vegetation, terrain, etc.), explore their geometries in 2D and 3D and access and edit the associated attributes. At the same time, depending on the user privileges, it is possible to delete features from the database using either normal QGIS editing tools, or a “bulk delete” tool, also included. The plug-in is composed of two parts, a server-side one, which must be installed in the 3D City Database instance, and the client-side one, which runs as a QGIS plug-in in strict sense. A GUI-based tool is also provided for database administrators in order to install/uninstall the database-side part of the plug-in, and manage users and their privileges. All in all, the 3DCityDB-Tools plug-in facilitates the access to CityGML data for GIS practitioners from heterogeneous fields and expertise with the common denominator being the well-known QGIS environment.
Subject
3D city database
QGIS
CityGML
CityJSON
Plug-in
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43699-4_48
Publisher
Springer, Cham
Embargo date
2024-08-21
ISBN
978-3-031-43698-7
Source
Recent Advances in 3D Geoinformation Science: Proceedings of the 18th 3D GeoInfo Conference
Event
18th 3D Geoinfo Conference, 2023-09-12 → 2023-09-14, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Series
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 1863-2246
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2024 G. Agugiaro, Konstantinos Pantelios, C.A. León Sánchez, Zhihang Yao, Claus Nagel