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CityJSON in QGIS: Development of an open‐source plugin / Stelios Vitalis in Transactions in GIS, Vol 24 n° 5 (October 2020)  

Public [article]  inTransactions in GIS > Vol 24 n° 5 (October 2020) . - pp 1147-1164 Titre : CityJSON in QGIS: Development of an open‐source plugin Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Stelios Vitalis, Auteur ; Ken Arroyo Ohori, Auteur ; Jantien Stoter, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 1147-1164 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Systèmes d'information géographique [Termes IGN] CityGML [Termes IGN] édition en libre accès [Termes IGN] format JSON [Termes IGN] implémentation (informatique) [Termes IGN] modèle 3D de l'espace urbain [Termes IGN] module d'extension [Termes IGN] QGIS [Termes IGN] visualisation 3D Résumé : (Auteur) When QGIS 3.0 was released in 2018, it added support for 3D visualisation. At the same time, CityJSON has been developing as an easy‐to‐use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) encoding for 3D city models using the CityGML 2.0 data model. Together, this opened the possibility to support semantic 3D city models in the popular open‐source GIS software for the first time. In order to add support for 3D city models in QGIS, we have developed a plugin that enables CityJSON datasets to be loaded. The plugin parses a CityJSON file and analyses its tree structure to identify all city objects. Then, the geometry and attributes of every city object are transformed into QGIS features and divided into layers according to user preferences. CityJSON parsing was proven to be straightforward and consistent when tested against several open datasets. One of the biggest challenges we faced, though, was mapping CityJSON’s hierarchical data structure to the relational model of QGIS. We undertook this issue by providing various methods on how geometries from the model are loaded as QGIS features. We intend to use the plugin for educational purposes in our university and we believe it can be proven a worthy tool for researchers and practitioners. Numéro de notice : A2020-498 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE/INFORMATIQUE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1111/tgis.12657 date de publication en ligne : 24/06/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12657 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96198 [article]