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10-14The Changzhou Satellite-Imagery City: One Data Expedition and Three Delivery Keys
No drones, no manual modeling — only network data and an AI/Agent. Changzhou walked all six routes: Overture heights blocked by the transparent proxy (honestly recorded), 10,381 Esri satellite tiles mosaicked into 16 chunk textures, 36,375 buildings individually sampled for roof color, programmatic facades, and the Tianning Pagoda rebuilt with upturned eaves; the final 71 MB model comes with three delivery keys: a browser viewer, a 22-second flythrough, and Blender roaming.
Read more › 10-12The Changzhou Counsel: When Data Cannot Portray a City
Changzhou did not get a blindly started model — it got a strategic memorandum: OSM building:levels coverage is only 7%, and no algorithm can buy back true height; the right path is oblique photography for the base, ten to twenty hand-built landmarks, optional Mapillary texturing or Substance PBR — deliverable in two weeks at Google Earth 3D quality.
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