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dataset | country | year | building LoD | other classes | textures | acquisition | formats | notes |
Adelaide | Australia | 2015 | LoD1/LoD2 | Terrain | true | .3DS with JPEG textures, Blender, FBX | ||
American cities | USA | 2019 | LoD1 | false | CityJSON, CityGML | 125 million buildings, separated by state | ||
Austin | USA | 2013 | LoD2 | false | KMZ | |||
Berlin | Germany | 2013 | LoD2 | true | CityGML, 2D Shape, 3D Shape - PolygonZ, 3D Shape - Multipatch, KMZ, DXF, DWG, 3DS, ESRI FGDB | Released in 2015 | ||
Bogotá | Colombia | 2019 | LoD1 | false | GeoPackage, PostgreSQL, GeoDataBase | |||
Bordeaux | France | 2012 | LoD2 | true | 3DS | Version without textures available here | ||
Boston | USA | 2017 | LoD1+LoD2 | Terrain | false | OBJ, DWG, MAX, Shapefile | ||
Brussels | Belgium | 2014 | LoD2 | false | CityGML, DWG, DGN, GML, Shapefile, SketchUp | |||
Calgary | Canada | 2023 | LoD2 | false | GDB, KMZ, Shapefile | |||
Cambridge, MA | USA | LoD1 | false | DXF, Shapefile, COLLADA | ||||
Dresden | Germany | 2009 | LoD1/LoD2/LoD3 | partially | CityGML | |||
Espoo | Finland | 2019 | LoD1-3 | true | CityGML | Many classes from CityGML: water body, terrain, landuse, etc. | ||
Estonia | Estonia | 2021 | LoD1+LoD2 | false | Geodatabase, CityGML, OBJ | Updated frequently | ||
Fredericton | Canada | 2016 | LoD2 | true | KMZ | |||
Greater Geelong | Australia | 2016 | LoD1/LoD2 | Terrain | false | KML | ||
Hamburg | Germany | 2017 | LoD1 and LoD2 | Cadastre footprints + LiDAR | CityGML | |||
Helsinki | Finland | 2016 | LoD2 | true | CityGML, 2D Shape, 3D Shape - PolygonZ, 3D Shape - Multipatch, KMZ, DXF, DWG, 3DS, ESRI FGDB | |||
Ingolstadt (by research project) | Germany | 2020 | LoD3 | mainly buildings | true | manually modeled based on MLS | CityGML | LoD3 Modeling Guide |
Japan (PLATEAU) | Japan | 2021 | LoD1+LoD2 | false | Shapefile, CityGML, 3Dtile/geopackage | in total 56 cities in Japan | ||
Linz | Austria | 2011 | LoD2 | false | CityGML | |||
Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 2017 | LoD1+LoD2.3 | false | CityGML | LoD1 is also available at this link | ||
Lyon | France | 2009, 2012, 2015 | LoD2 | Terrain, water | true | CityGML | ||
Montréal | Canada | 2013 | LoD2 | Terrain (TIN in CityGML format) | true | Photogrammetry | CityGML, 3DM | The LiDAR dataset of the same area is also available. 2009 dataset also available. |
Namur | Belgium | 2018 | LoD2 | true | CityGML, Sketchup | Bridges and citadel available here | ||
Netherlands 3D BAG | the Netherlands | 2021 | LoD1+LoD2 | false | CityJSON, GPKG, OBJ, dump PostgreSQL | all 10M+ buildings in the Netherlands | ||
New York City (by DoITT) | United States | 2016 | LoD2 | false | Cadastre footprints + LiDAR | CityGML, Multipatch (ESRI), DGN | Buildings are modeled with thematic surfaces in LoD2, however, for most buildings the geometric shape is LoD1 | |
New York City (by TUM) | United States | 2015 | LoD1 | Roads, lots, parks, water, terrain | false | Photogrammetry in combination with existing public 2(.5)D datasets | CityGML | Article with details |
North Rhine-Westphalia (state) | Germany | 2016 | LoD1+LoD2 | false | Cadastre footprints, LiDAR, aerial images. LoD1 is derived from LoD2 models with average roof height (details here) | CityGML | Enormous datasets that covers whole NRW (NRW is the most populated state in Germany) Cities included: Düsseldorf, Essen, Oberhausen, Köln, Bonn and more | |
Philadelphia | USA | 2015 | LoD2 | true | GDB | |||
Potsdam | Germany | 2018 | LoD2 | false | CityGML | |||
Poznań | Poland | 2019 | LoD1+LoD2 | false | several diff formats | |||
Rotterdam | Netherlands | 2010 | LoD2 | true | Cadastre footprints + LiDAR | CityGML | ||
San Francisco | USA | 2017 | LoD1 | false | KML, Shapefile, File Geodatabase | |||
Singapore | Singapore | 2019 | LoD1 | false | CityJSON, OBJ | Public housing (HDB) buildings. Code used to generate dataset is publicly available. | ||
The Hague | Netherlands | 2018 | LoD2 | Terrain | false | CityGML, DGN | 2010 model also available. It contains terrain intersection curves! | |
Toronto | Canada | 2016 | LoD1 | Shapefile, ESRI Multipatch, AutoCAD, SketchUp | ||||
Vancouver | Canada | 2009 | LoD1 | false | Shapefile, DWG, KML | |||
Vantaa | Finland | 2017 | LoD1+LoD2 | true | CityGML, Sketchup, KML | |||
Various CityJSON datasets | Netherlands, Canada, USA, Austria | 2018 | LoD2 | some | converted from CityGML with citygml4j | CityJSON | Available cities are the Hague, Montréal, New York, Rotterdam, Vienna, and Zürich | |
Vienna | Austria | 2018 | LoD2 | false | CityGML | From the building footprints of the area multipurpose map and a surface model semi-automatically derived prototypical roof forms. | ||
Zürich | Switzerland | 2019 | LoD1+LoD2 | Terrain | false | several diff formats |