Print Email Facebook Twitter Extruding building footprints to create topologically consistent 3D city models Title Extruding building footprints to create topologically consistent 3D city models Author Ledoux, H. Meijers, B.M. Faculty OTB Research Institute Department GIS Technology Date 2009-12-31 Abstract One of the simplest methods to construct a 3D city model is to extrude building footprints, to obtain "block-shaped" buildings. While the method is well-known and easy to implement, if the topological relationships between the footprints are not taken into account, the resulting city models will not necessarily be topologically consistent. As a result, the model will be of little use for most applications, besides visualisation that is. In this paper, we present a new extrusion algorithm to construct topologically correct 3D city models. It is conceptually simple and permits us to create city models in different formats (e.g. CityGML). We have implemented the algorithm, tested it for the creation of the model of our university campus and validated it by constructing the constrained Delaunay tetrahedralization. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:84bcc243-de63-4860-acd3-7e70d13887c0 Publisher Taylor & Francis Group ISBN 978-0-415-556422 Source Urban and Regional Data Management - UDMS Annual 2009, 39-48. (2009) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights (c) 2009 Ledoux, H.; Meijers, B.M.; Taylor & Francis Group Files PDF 235496.pdf 343.71 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:84bcc243-de63-4860-acd3-7e70d13887c0/datastream/OBJ/view