New York Inwards 3D

You tin sack explore New York inwards glorious 3D on Cesium. In New York City Cesium uses NYC DoITT's 3D Building Massing Model of New York City to aid to pick out the metropolis alive.

NYC DoITT's 3D edifice model was created from a 2014 aerial survey of the city. The edifice models include detailed pitched roofs as well as roof appendages such every bit chimneys, parapets as well as spindles. If you lot desire to purpose the 3D buildings inwards your ain maps you lot tin sack download the edifice massing model inwards the CityGML format from the NYC.gov website.


NYC DoITT's 3D Building Massing Model was likewise used inwards the New York Times' Mapping the Shadows of New York City. This beautiful map shows the extent that the city's tall buildings block the Sun throughout the year.

The Times says that nearly Manhattan neighborhoods stay inwards shadow for at to the lowest degree one-half of the day. They likewise claim that the amount of fourth dimension a place spends inwards shadow during daylight hours tin sack impact everything from bird rental prices to the menses of pes traffic on the city's streets.

To calculate the extent of edifice shadows inwards winter, summer, jump as well as autumn the NYT worked alongside the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University to calculate the full publish of minutes that a given signal spends inwards shadow over the course of pedagogy of a day, based on the summit as well as place of nearby buildings.