Sanborn 3DCities Products are an essential ingredient to virtual city implementations. Combining a strong visual appearance with a standards-compliant relational objects database, 3DCities products offer building and geospatial feature accuracy. The off-the-shelf metro areas include orthoimagery, 3D buildings, elevation models and geospatial datasets covering the largest central business districts for over 60 major cities in the Americas and Europe.
Committed to the improvement of city visualization and analysis, additional cities will become available from around the globe.
Sanborn 3DCities can provide valuable geospatial and visualization data for users and organization involved with:
State and Major Urban Fusion Centers
Local, State and Federal Operations Centers
Homeland Security and National Defense
Local Law Enforcement
Architectural / Engineering / Construction
Real-Estate and Land Development
Navigation Applications
Urban and Transportation Planning
Security Planning and Training
Public and Private Utility Providers
Gaming and Internet Companies
3DCities Products provide a variety of information that can be used in GIS or CAD software production environments. The product contains orthorectified aerial imagery for use in visualization applications, and also may be used as an accurate dataset for spatial analysis. In some cases the product has both current and archived historical components.
Available Datasets
Area/mi.
Area/km.
#Bldgs.
#Addr.
Attrib.
Collected
Arlington, VA
2.3
6.0
3594
5648
Y
2002
Atlanta, GA
3.4
8.8
2090
4696
Y
2002
Austin, TX
5.0
13.0
4482
N/A
N
2008
Baltimore, MD
2.4
6.3
2562
6849
Y
2002
Boston, MA
2.9
7.5
3468
11764
Y
2002/08
Bridgeport, CT
5.0
13.0
1922
N/A
N
2008
Brooklyn, NY
2.2
5.8
4424
11679
Y
2002/08
Buffalo, NY
3.5
9.0
5482
5994
Y
2004
Charlotte, NC
5.0
13.0
1709
N/A
N
2008
Chicago, IL
15.2
39.3
18409
31799
Y
2002/08
Cincinnati, OH
3.8
9.7
1882
2766
Y
2008
Cleveland, OH
3.8
10.0
1334
1478
Y
2004/08
Columbus, OH
5.0
13.0
9603
N/A
N
2008
Dallas, TX
3.8
9.9
2108
4871
Y
2002
Denver, CO
2.2
5.6
1774
4170
Y
2002/04
Detroit, MI
2.9
7.4
1404
4345
Y
2004/08
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
3.5
9.1
5249
7467
Y
2002
Hartford, CT
5.0
13.0
2136
N/A
N
2008
Honolulu, HI
3.8
9.8
3538
3718
Y
2004
Houston, TX
3.3
8.4
1648
3291
Y
2002
Indianapolis, IN
5.0
13.0
3325
N/A
N
2008
Jersey City, NJ
3.5
8.9
5193
10041
Y
2002
Kansas City, MO
3.6
9.4
1544
1946
Y
2004
Las Vegas, NV
6.4
16.6
2730
4102
Y
2002/08
Long Beach, CA
3.1
8.1
3007
4056
Y
2004/08
Los Angeles, CA
10.4
27.1
27278
42321
Y
2002/08
Louisville, KY
5.0
13.0
4763
N/A
N
2008
Manhattan, NY
10.1
26.1
17382
43691
Y
2002/08
Memphis, TN
3.7
9.5
2519
2726
Y
2004
Milwaukee, WI
5.0
13.0
5993
N/A
N
2008
Miami, FL
3.8
10.0
2755
5083
Y
2002
Minneapolis, MN
2.0
5.2
864
3727
Y
2002
Nashville, TN
5.0
13.0
1066
N/A
N
2008
New Orleans, LA
3.0
7.9
4412
4709
Y
2002
Newark, NJ
3.6
9.3
7045
11052
Y
2002
Norfolk, VA
5.0
13.0
775
N/A
N
2008
Orlando, FL
5.0
13.0
5301
N/A
N
2008
Pentagon City, VA
1.7
4.3
1230
1570
Y
2002
Philadelphia, PA
5.5
14.1
15935
21877
Y
2002/08
Phoenix, AZ
3.3
8.7
3883
4081
Y
2004
Pittsburgh, PA
3.7
9.5
3252
3907
Y
2002
Portland, OR
1.3
3.4
991
4518
Y
2002
Providence, RI
5.0
13.0
7349
N/A
N
2008
Richmond, VA
5.0
13.0
7770
N/A
N
2008
Sacramento, CA
3.1
8.0
3047
3582
Y
2004
San Antonio, TX
5.0
13.0
6992
6992
N
2008
San Diego, CA
2.1
5.3
1308
3997
Y
2004
San Francisco, CA
5.8
15.0
8604
31433
Y
2002/08
San Jose, CA
5.0
13.0
6141
N/A
N
2008
Seattle, WA
3.5
9.1
2348
7393
Y
2002/08
St. Louis, MO
4.9
12.7
2164
6334
Y
2002
St. Paul, MN
1.1
2.9
491
1837
Y
2002
St. Petersburg, FL
2.5
6.5
1717
3418
Y
2002
Tampa, FL
0.8
2.1
256
789
Y
2002
Washington, DC
7.5
19.3
6487
17516
Y
2002/08
Paris, FR
5.0
13.0
12852
N/A
N
2004
Berlin, GE
5.0
13.0
3821
N/A
N
2004
Buenos Aires, AR
7.0
18.2
32950
N/A
N
2008
Mexico City, MX
11.3
29.4
47278
N/A
N
2008
Rio de Janeiro, BR
9.4
24.4
31882
N/A
N
2008
Sao Paulo, BR
9.4
24.3
39137
N/A
N
2008
Santiago, CH
9.8
25.5
54419
N/A
N
2008
Caracas, VZ
9.7
25.0
57861
N/A
N
2008
Additional cities will be listed as they become available.
3D Cities Products Sample Imagery--Click to Enlarge
Imagery Specifications
Imagery is RBG, positional accuracy no less than +/- 2’ RMS
Available for GIS and CAD software formats
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) provided
3D Buildings Specifications
Buildings--positional accuracies of building models +/- 30cm
Buildings are developed illustrating external architectural structure
Full topology–completely built and tested features dataset without gaps, dangles, overlaps, etc.
Addresses (when available). In many cases all relevant address within each single structure are provided
Optimized geometry for maximum efficiency and data storage capacity
Additional Atributes Specs
(where available)
Transportation features
Surface elevation models and grids
Other planimetric feature layers (streets, parks, etc)
Building Photos
Alternate address location
Additional Available Customized Services
Buildings may be textured using a variety of techniques to create generalized to highly realistic exterior facades
Enhanced modeling provides buildings with generalized architectural structure detail
5 progressively realistic building types. Available as LOD0 though LOD5
Buildings are compliant per OGC CityGML standards.
Full urban models complete with terrain, structures, imagery, and textured building models are available
For pricing and additional information, or to order 3D Cities Products, contact Sanborn customer service by phone at 1.866.SANBORN or send email to information@sanborn.com.
