1. First steps

The 3D City Database (3DCityDB) is a free and open source package consisting of a database schema and a set of software tools to import, manage, analyse, visualize, and export virtual 3D city models on top of a spatial database system.

This quickstart guide gives step-by-step instructions for setting up a 3D City Database instance. Installers for the 3D City Database scripts and tools can be downloaded from the official project website at http://www.3dcitydb.org. The source code of the 3D City Database is hosted and maintained on GitHub at https://github.com/3dcitydb.

• 1.1. System requirements
• 1.2. Installation of the Importer/Exporter
• 1.3. Setting up the 3DCityDB schema
• 1.4. Migration from previous releases
• 1.5. Docker Images

The individual components of the 3D City Database are also available as images for the Docker virtualization technology. This makes it possible to install and configure a 3D City Database with a single command line statement in almost any runtime environment. See Section 1.5 for more details.