Wellington Digital Twin
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Built on the Unreal game engine, Wellington's 'Our Changing City' digital twin lets residents explore past, present and projected floods, landslides and sea-level rise through GIS, aerial and 3D building data. The council built it out with a US$1M grant after winning Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2021 Global Mayors Challenge in January 2022.
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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). “Wellington Digital Twin” — Wellington, New Zealand. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/wellington-digital-twin/ (last verified 2026-07-19). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.