

Within each SketchUp tile, the ground plan texture is named Terrain_.png. Warning when working with SketchUp files in Rhino

Each of these components is shared in formats intended to facilitate collaboration between diverse communities who have an interest in understanding places in the city as they have changed or as they may be changed. The Cambridge 3D model is constructed of several components: Terrain, Ground plan, and 3D models of buildings and bridges.

The City of Cambridge GIS maintains a 3D model of the city as a visualization and analytical tool for understanding ideas related to the future of the City.

SketchUp is available free for non-commercial use. These layers have been transformed from the city's GIS data into a SketchUp model that is easy to explore and to edit. The Tiled 3D Model is a combination of terrain with a draped basemap with a collection of 3D building models. Each model being assigned to the tile that its centroid falls within. The model collection is segmented into tiles which is contiguous with the City of Boston 3D tile grid. The SketchUp building model collection provides 3D models for modeling, model transformation, and web visualization. The City of Cambridge Geographic Information System (GIS) City-Wide 3D project provides a detailed three-dimensional model of buildings and bridges has been compiled from many sources over several years.
