You tin explore New York inward glorious 3D on Cesium. In New York City Cesium uses NYC DoITT's 3D Building Massing Model of New York City to assistance to convey the urban heart alive.
NYC DoITT's 3D edifice model was created from a 2014 aerial survey of the city. The edifice models include detailed pitched roofs in addition to roof appendages such every bit chimneys, parapets in addition to spindles. If you lot desire to role the 3D buildings inward your ain maps you lot tin download the edifice massing model inward the CityGML format from the NYC.gov website.
NYC DoITT's 3D Building Massing Model was likewise used inward the New York Times' Mapping the Shadows of New York City. This beautiful map shows the extent that the city's tall buildings block the Sun throughout the year.
The Times says that nigh Manhattan neighborhoods rest inward shadow for at to the lowest degree one-half of the day. They likewise claim that the amount of fourth dimension a place spends inward shadow during daylight hours tin acquit upon everything from floor rental prices to the catamenia of human foot traffic on the city's streets.
To calculate the extent of edifice shadows inward winter, summer, saltation in addition to autumn the NYT worked amongst the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University to calculate the full set out of minutes that a given betoken spends inward shadow over the course of didactics of a day, based on the pinnacle in addition to place of nearby buildings.
