Geo Data

What is GEO Data

Geo data is Geographical information and therefor it has a location component. The information is documented in digital maps and databases. In this case the Geographic information is specified as GIS-data because of the function to attach attributes and/or objects that are assigned to a specific location. This GIS-data contains geometric charactaristics where the planes (not points and/or lines) information is stored in vectors. Additional information about the characteristics of the Geo data can be found on the GeoJSON page.

How does GEO Data relate to the Tygron Engine?

The Tygron Engine uses automatically connected Geo Databases for The Netherlands to generate the 3D World. When the selection is made on the map in the wizard the 3D World is built up based on the available GEO Data in the connected data sources. For all the different environmental elements the database with the most complete and relevant Geo data is connected. All together this forms the 3D World. For this proces the principle applies: If you miss something in your 3D World it is not available in the data base otherwise it would be present in the 3D World. To complete the Geo data you can either update the information in the database, or you enter additional Geo data manually. More infomation about how you can enter the data manually is also explaind on the GeoJSON.

What GEO Databases are used?

The following table contains the automatically connected data sources that are used for The Netherlands. For abroad counties this can give some exapmles of the desired Geo Data you want to collect and connect to build the 3D World for your own project. At the bottom of the table an integrated data source connection is mentioned. More information about his option is explained in the next topic about when to use your own Geo data.

Name	File Type	Source	Description
BGT	GML-File	PDOK	Information about street objects, roads, parks, trees, water surface, etc.
BAG	OGC-service	PDOK	Information about building contours, building type definitions, construction year, etc.
Aerial View	ESRI service	ESRI / CycloMedia	For basic texture of landscape, color of the roofs.
DEM	ESRI service	ESRI	Digital Elevation Model: the terrain height (excluding buildings).
AHN2 / 3	ESRI service	ESRI	For service area including building height. Determination of roof types, building sections and elevations.
Neighborhoods	OGC service	PDOK / CBS	For determination of communities and neighborhood information.
Zoning	GML service	Ruimtelijke Plannen	Information about i.a. authorized dimensions and -functions of buildings. Also additional feature attributes such as Monumental status.
Top10NL	OGC service	Tygron / PDOK	Backup for BGT, among others locations of ocean surface, highways, railways.
NWB	OGC service	PDOK	Names of roads and ID information for INWEVA.
INWEVA	Excel	Rijkswaterstaat	Information on all major roads in The Netherlands including the intensity of the road sections.
BRP	OGC service	PDOK	Information on what kind of crop fields (corn, potatoes, etc).
Cadastral map	OGC service	PDOK	Information about land ownership.
CycloMedia	CycloMedia	CycloMedia	Information about locations of windows, floors, wall color of buildings.
Risk map	GML service	Risicokaart.nl	Information on hazardous- and / or nuisance buildings, for exapmle LPG station. Also additional information on vulnerable buildings like hotels, pension, etc.
Natura 2000	OGC service	PDOK	Information about nature.
Build in possibility to add additional GEO Data from the Tygron Engine
ArcGIS Online maps	ESRI service	ESRI	Ability to add ArcGIS Online additional cards if desired.

When to use your own GEO Data?

When a project is situated outside of The Netherlands only ESRI data is connected and will load automatically when the 3D world is generated. Beside water and elovation of land, this does not contain any information about constructions and/or environmental characteristics. In use case 3 an exapmle is given of how to connect the needed Geo Data to built up a 3D environment. It is also possible to implement your own Geo data for a project that is situated within the Netherlands but the diffrence is that this will be additional geo data instead of basic geo data in order to generate the 3D world.

Using intergrade function of ArcGis