{"id":6088,"date":"2023-06-16T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2023-06-23T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T14:13:00","slug":"anyone-for-rural-information-models-and-digital-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=6088","title":{"rendered":"Anyone for Rural Information Models and Digital Twins?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is a post that I did for LinkedIn that I have copied here for others to view\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lots of people talk about\u00a0digitaltwins\u00a0for cities (and more often than not focus on 3D City Information Model creation), but don&#8217;t forget that cities are supported by surrounding rural areas\/hinterland! With data coming from the\u00a0Environment Agency&#8217;s National\u00a0LiDAR\u00a0programme automated tools for\u00a0geospatial\u00a0software like\u00a0ArcGISPro\u00a0allow us to quickly create 3D building models of rural areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In many ways I think that these tools, although often designed for cities, work better in rural areas where building footprints are not part of larger groupings. The UK&#8217;s National LiDAR programme is great as it&#8217;s\u00a0opendata\u00a0and has point classification built in as well.\u00a0Paul Cureton\u00a0The screenshot below is 3D building models created in\u00a0ArcGISPro\u00a0that utilises\u00a0CityEngine\u00a0rules to define roof forms, yes as with all automation nothing is 100% accurate, but it is not bad for free (free data not software sorry)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a post that I did for LinkedIn that I have copied here for others to view\u2026. Lots of people talk about\u00a0digitaltwins\u00a0for cities (and more often than not focus on 3D City Information Model creation), but don&#8217;t forget that cities are supported by surrounding rural areas\/hinterland! With data coming from the\u00a0Environment Agency&#8217;s National\u00a0LiDAR\u00a0programme automated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":6090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,393,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-3d","category-digitaltwin","category-rural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}