Digitales Stadtmodell «Zürich um 1500» - Kreisflug
Digital City Model “Zurich Around 1500” – Flyover
Watch on YouTube ↗Zurich · Switzerland · Europe
Zürich 4D
Zürich 4D presents the city’s buildings and development through time. The municipality documents an interactive public web map with regularly updated planning layers, proposed construction, and historical models. This is a visualization component of Zurich’s wider digital twin infrastructure; live sensor operations are not established for this application.
Project identity & implementation
- Implementation type
- 3D City Model / Map
- Project description
- 3D city model
- Responsible organization
- City of Zurich GIS competence center / GeoZ
- Providers
- Not documented
- Lifecycle
- Operational
- Public access
- Public Interactive Viewer
- Launch / deployment
- 2022
- Coverage
- City of Zurich, including historical time slices.
Use cases
Compare historical, current and potential future built environments.
Physical-system connection
No sensor or operational-data connection to the physical system is established by the retained evidence. Geometry, registers, modeled estimates or spatial layers alone do not establish that connection.
Decision workflow
See the documented use cases. A planning or visualization use case alone does not establish a maintained operational data workflow.
Classification basis
The retained evidence establishes a 3D spatial model or map. A connected twin is not established for this specific listing; capabilities of a wider municipal platform are not automatically attributed to its public viewer.
Documented capabilities
- Technologies
- Not documented
- Data types
- 3D buildings, Spatial data
- Data update / live data
- Live sensor integration is not established by the retained evidence.
Results & limitations
No independently verified performance metrics recorded.
A 3D model does not by itself establish live data, simulation, or an operational feedback loop.
Evidence & links
- Official project / case study ↗
- Recorded viewer endpoint ↗ — Verified reachable
- Official project documentation ↗
Identity and capabilities reviewed against this primary source on October 8, 2026.
Project Video
Der neue GIS-Browser ist da
GIS browser rather than true digital twin.
Watch on YouTube ↗- Documentation link
- Verified reachable · 2026-10-09Endpoint reachable. This checks link health, not complete 3D rendering.
- Viewer link
- Verified reachable · 2026-10-09Endpoint reachable. This checks link health, not complete 3D rendering.
- Last detailed research
- 2026-10-08
Endpoint checks verify link health. They do not certify that every 3D layer, simulation, or data feed works. Public access and lifecycle are assessed separately.