Introducing the 3DCityDB-Tools Plug-In for QGIS

Giorgio Agugiaro; Konstantinos Pantelios; Camilo León-Sánchez; Zhihang Yao; Claus Nagel

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-43699-4_48

Introducing the 3DCityDB-Tools Plug-In for QGIS

Giorgio Agugiaro^*, Konstantinos Pantelios, Camilo León-Sánchez, Zhihang Yao, Claus Nagel

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Urban Data Science

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Recent Advances in 3D Geoinformation Science
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th 3D GeoInfo Conference
Editors	Thomas H. Kolbe, Andreas Donaubauer, Christof Beil
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	48
Pages	797-821
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-43699-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-43698-7, 978-3-031-43701-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43699-4_48
Publication status	Published - 2024
Event	18th 3D Geoinfo Conference - Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany Duration: 12 Sept 2023 → 14 Sept 2023 https://www.3dgeoinfo.org/3dgeoinfo/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Publisher	Springer
ISSN (Print)	1863-2246
ISSN (Electronic)	1863-2351

Conference

Conference	18th 3D Geoinfo Conference
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Munich
Period	12/09/23 → 14/09/23
Internet address	https://www.3dgeoinfo.org/3dgeoinfo/

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

3D city database
QGIS
CityGML
CityJSON
Plug-in

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Agugiaro, G., Pantelios, K., León-Sánchez, C., Yao, Z., & Nagel, C. (2024). Introducing the 3DCityDB-Tools Plug-In for QGIS. In T. H. Kolbe, A. Donaubauer, & C. Beil (Eds.), Recent Advances in 3D Geoinformation Science: Proceedings of the 18th 3D GeoInfo Conference (pp. 797-821). (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43699-4_48

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Agugiaro, G, Pantelios, K, León-Sánchez, C, Yao, Z & Nagel, C 2024, Introducing the 3DCityDB-Tools Plug-In for QGIS. in TH Kolbe, A Donaubauer & C Beil (eds), Recent Advances in 3D Geoinformation Science: Proceedings of the 18th 3D GeoInfo Conference. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer, Cham, pp. 797-821, 18th 3D Geoinfo Conference, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, 12/09/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43699-4_48

Introducing the 3DCityDB-Tools Plug-In for QGIS. / Agugiaro, Giorgio; Pantelios, Konstantinos; León-Sánchez, Camilo et al.
Recent Advances in 3D Geoinformation Science: Proceedings of the 18th 3D GeoInfo Conference. ed. / Thomas H. Kolbe; Andreas Donaubauer; Christof Beil. Cham: Springer, 2024. p. 797-821 (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography).

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