The 3D web client supports rich model interaction such as highlighting
of 3D objects on mouse over and mouse click. More than one 3D object can
be selected by Ctrl-clicking on them and can also be hidden and
redisplayed in the 3D web client interactively. Besides, the user is
able to create a screenshot image of the current map view (including the
highlighted and hidden 3D objects) or print it directly via the web
browser. Moreover, when a 3D object is selected, it can be visually
inspected in other third-party mapping applications (Bing Maps, Google
Streetview, OpenStreetMap and DualMaps) from multiple view
perspectives such as oblique view, street view, or a combined version.
For the sake of clarity, the above mentioned functionalities will be
illustrated with the help of a number of screenshots generated based on
the online demo Semantic 3D City Model of Berlin which shows all
Berlin’s buildings (> 550,000) with textured 3D geometries and many
thematic attributes in the 3D web client. You can find the link of this
demo via the following web page:
https://github.com/3dcitydb/3dcitydb-web-map
Once the demo was opened in your web browser, you may need to use the
Geocoder widget to zoom the Earth map to the building object with the
GMLID “BLDG_0003000b0009a940”.