GeoSolutions at GeoWeek Feb 16-18 (Booth #1245): Building Urban Digital Twins with Open Source Technologies
Dear Reader,
During 2025, MapStore has evolved support for 3D tiles as well as several other enhancements, moreover we have developed an Open Source Digital Twin Toolbox to process 3D data into 3DTiles and other formats geared towards web streaming. Visit Booth #1245 for live demos and more information on Open Source tools for creating digital twins (or to chat with Simone and Ryan about open-source geo projects and use cases in general!).
In addition, Simone Giannecchini will be presenting at the Global Lessons in Urban Digital Twins session (Feb 18 11:00AM – 12:00 PM MT) in Bluebird Ballroom 1C. “Building Urban Digital Twins with Open Source Technologies: Lessons from the Trenches” will explore the architecture and deployment of browser-based urban digital twins using open standards (3D Tiles, gITF, and OGC APIS), showcasing real-world implementation in City of Florence, Italy. Attendees will gain a practical understanding of how to design modurlar and extensible digital twin platforms using open-source tools to empower smarter, more resilient urban systems without proprietary constraints.
A few tutorials are available in the Digital Twing Toolbox project’s wiki, like for example one for the conversion of shapefile with polygon geometries to 3D Tiles and one for the conversion of point cloud data to 3D tiles. Additional resources include past webinars: For Digital Twin Toolbox, check out this webinar showcasing the latest advancements on generating digital twins. For latest advancements in MapStore, we invite you to view our latest webinar on MapStore 2025.o1.
Digital Twin Examples Utilizing Digital Twin Toolbox and MapStore:
Digital Twin Toobox at work
Bird’s-eye view of Florence UNESCO city center digital twin with 3D buildings and lidar extracted features (roofs, trees).
“The intersection of geospatial + the built world” is the focus of GeoWeek and we continue to evolve MapStore and 3D support for powerful visualization of the built environment. This is a culmination of our work with OGC 3D Tiles and Cesium. As Cesium certified developers and global leaders in open-source for geospatial software development, GeoSolutions is here to support your organization’s evolution toward full 3D visualization integration and we’re proud to make this capability freely available in the latest public distribution of MapStore.
Washington D.C. 3D Tiles
Additional live 3D demos are available here:
- Google Photorealistics 3D Tiles demo
- Washington D.C. 3D Tiles Demo
- City of Genoa (Italy) City Views
- City of Milan (Italy) Undeground
As always, call on us, the core code developers and experts on:
- GeoServer, the leading open source server to publish geospatial data at scale.
- MapStore, our modular open source WebGIS product to create and publish geospatial data as maps, dashboards and geo stories.
- GeoNode, the open source GIS platform to create a complete and interoperable spatial data infrastructure.
If you are interested in learning more about how we can help you achieve your needs with MapStore, GeoServer, GeoNode and GeoNetwork through our Enterprise Support Services, Professional Training Services and Subscription Services please contact us!
The GeoSolutions team,
