3D City Database client for high-performance import and export of 3D city model data
This is a minor release which comes with exciting new features, improvements and bugfixes.
Notable new features and additions
See the change log for the complete list of changes.
We are happy to announce the first release candidate for the upcoming Importer/Exporter version 4.3. It will bring new features, improvements and bugfixes. The version is ready for testing and we are looking forward to your feedback. Please report back any issues you may find using the issue tracker. There is still some work to do, especially on updating the user manual, so stay tuned.
This is a minor maintenance and bug fix release. See the change log for the complete list of changes.
This is a minor maintenance and bug fix release. See the change log for the complete list of changes.
This is a minor maintenance and bug fix release.
Notable new features and additions
-pid-file
command-line argument to create a file storing the process ID of the Importer/Exporter at the provided path. This can be useful to check whether the Importer/Exporter is running or to issue a kill
command to end it.See the change log for the complete list of changes.
This is a maintenance and bug fix release.
Notable new features and additions
CityGMLExportExtension
has been added as a first extension point for non-GUI plugins. Using this extension, a plugin receives and can process all CityGML features before they are written to the output file. Besides using XSLT stylesheets for CityGML exports, this adds another way of having full control over the output. Note: Due to the changes to the Plugin API, make sure to only use plugins built for this version.GeometryConverter
when using affine transformations during CityGML imports. #77
See the change log for the complete list of changes.
This is a maintenance and bug fix release.
Notable new features and additions
See the change log for the complete list of changes.
We are happy to announce the new major version 4.0 of the Importer/Exporter. During the past year, we have worked hard to implement support for CityGML Application Domain Extensions (ADEs). The ADE mechanism is a built-in feature of CityGML that allows users to extend the CityGML data model with additional types, attributes and relations, which carry information required for specific applications and which are integrated with the predefined 3D city objects. ADEs are becoming more and more popular, and are defined for various application fields such as energy assessment and simulation (Energy ADE) or modelling of utility networks (UtilityNetwork ADE). A non-exhaustive list of further ADE developments is available here.
With this release, the 3DCityDB database schema can be dynamically extended by arbitrary ADEs. We have developed a transform method that reads the XML Schema definition of an ADE and automatically derives a relational schema that seamlessly integrates with the 3DCityDB core schema. This method is presented in detail here, and has been implemented in the newly available ADE Manager Plugin for our Importer/Exporter tool. The plugin allows users to register one or more ADEs with an existing 3DCityDB instance and automatically generates SQL scripts to work with the ADE data (e.g. for the performant deletion of ADE objects from the database). The Importer/Exporter tool itself has been extended with an ADE API. So, if you want to use this tool to import and export ADE data, then you have to implement this API. An example for an ADE implementation is available here.
Notable new features and additions
See the change log for the complete list of changes.
This is a maintenance and bug fix release.
Notable changes to the importer/exporter tool:
The importer/exporter is shipped with the latest version 1.4 of the 3DCityDB-Web-Map-Client, which features Cesium version 1.35 as well as better support for mobile devices, such as optimized user interface and the "first-person view" mode that utilizes real-time GPS information.
Update of database schema and procedures: The 3D City Database schema and procedures have been updated to version 3.3.1 with this release. Please check the release notes for an overview of the changes.
Due to a bug in the creation of spatial indexes on PostgreSQL/PostGIS, it is strongly recommended to upgrade your existing 3DCityDB instance to version 3.3.1.
This is a maintenance and bug fix release.
ImpExpCmd.java
citygml4j
to version 2.4.1The 3D City Database schema and procedures have not been updated with this release. Thus, no upgrade action is required for version 3.3 instances of the 3D City Database.