Berlin 3D City Model & Digital Twin
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Berlin maintains a semantic 3D city model of some 550,000 LoD2 buildings in CityGML covering the whole 890 km² city. It has been published as free open data since 2015 through the Business Location Center's Berlin3D portal (run by Berlin Partner for the Senate Department for Economics), with a photorealistic mesh refreshed from a June 2025 aerial survey. The model feeds the Energy Atlas / Solaratlas Berlin, which rates the solar potential of every roof, while the Senate's urban-development arm keeps a separate vector 3D model for design review, noise and sunlight simulation. A newer urban digital-twin infrastructure (FUTR HUB, Berlin TXL) builds on this geodata base.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Sources
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Berlin 3D City Model & Digital Twin” — Berlin, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/berlin-3d-digital-twin/ (last verified 2026-07-25). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.