Latest News from AccuCities
Articles, Projects & Activities
This is the place where we announce the latest company news, case studies and showcase interesting 3D models capture. You can also read articles on 3D cities capture & Photogrammetry, Research and Machine Learning, 3D City Models, Unreal Engine 4 and Plan.City work. We are also publishing all Awards & Trophies we have received over the time.
Bids and Engagement CGIs by PreConVision
PreConVision is a multi-award winning creative studio space based in Central London, specialising in construction industry bids, engagement CGIs and 4D visualisations. They have the ability to create innovative multi-dimensional designs that allow clients to envision their projects before completio ...
2,500 3D City Mapping Projects Delivered
Fantastic news from the Company Operations/Humblebrags side of our business. AccuCities has now delivered 2,500 library and 3D city mapping projects. On reaching this important milestone, we would like to take this opportunity to send a big Thank You to all our customers, partners and suppliers for ...
Working with Textured 3D London in Plan.City
AccuCities textured 3D City Model of London 2021 has been created using our large and detailed Level 3 city model and the latest high-resolution oblique imagery. The city model keeps its light-weight geometry and high accuracy whilst wrapped in editable textures. This set-up gives users high usabil ...
Case Studies: Architects use 3D city maps
3D city maps are used by architects for a wide range of applications. It is necessary for architects to understand the spatial context of development. RIBA Plan of Work has been updated in 2020. The new Stage 3 “Spatial Coordination” replaces “Developed Design” and represents a clear deadline for a ...
3D city models help to deliver safer drones
3D city models play a crucial part in designing and monitoring future Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) air traffic. As drone technologies are advancing at a fast pace, safety in the cityscape remains a prime concern. AccuCities have been the supplier of choice to SafeZone, an innovative project to im ...
Latest AccuCities 3D City Models Google Reviews
See why we are a great X-Y-Z mapping alternative. We are proud to be a 5-star business and honored to have the highest number of reviews on Google from all the 3D mapping companies. Google 3D city models reviews are public user experiences left by AccuCities customers. AccuCities is a great photogr ...
Plan.city – Urban planning in Unreal Engine
Plan.city app has been developed in-house by AccuCities for its customers. In this this CPD webinar, Brais Brenlla Ramos, the lead UE4 and UE5 developer at AccuCities, will explain how Plan.City works, from the perspective of the tools, the data layer that enables you to use and some of the other fu ...
RIBA CPD: An overview of 3D city models
This webinar is centered around a direct comparison of 5 different 3D city models, contrasting their main differences and limits of each of the models. To do this we have overlaid a render of each type of 3D city model, looking at the same area of London; looking south from north London, the compar ...
Context 3D Model used in Planning by Rockhunter
Rockhunter has provided illustration services for architects, interior designers, property developers, property agents and marketing consultancies in planning, design development and marketing of architecture and interior design for over 18 years. To better serve their customers, they routinely use ...
Goodbye and Best of Luck to Rachel Rowson!
After nearly 2 years of impeccable service as our Operations Manager, Rachel Rowson has decided to leave us to do real architecture. Architecture is where her heart is; we have hired her from Zaha Hadid Architecture and now, to fully qualify as Part 3 RIBA architect, she will continue her career at ...
3D printed London model for your events
3D printed city model of London is a joint creation of AccuCities and Hobs 3D, produced from AccuCities 3D London CAD data and printed in Hobs 3D’s London studio. Introduced to the public at London Build 2021, this model is the largest (and still growing) 3D printed model of London ever produced. T ...
Light Analysis Explained by Daylight Planning LTD
Daylight Planning LTD provides both qualitative and quantitative technical support for use in applications, appeals and negotiations relating to planning and common law issues for architectural design and construction. Working with many local authorities, over the years the company helped to ensure ...
Barbican Temporal Map by Campbell Orme
The Covid-19 lock-down gave many people time to create exceptional personal projects - the Barbican London Temporal Pedestrian Map is certainly one of them. Created by Campbell Orme, these unique maps of Barbican, London are made from alternating slices of maps, illustrating the massing and roads b ...
3D mapping: Surveyor’s high-tech crystal ball
Gela Pertusini from Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) magazine Modus explores why 3D mapping is a high-tech crystal ball for surveyors. Sandor explains how we capture Future Skyline layer and Michal gets all controversial about now shelved London's Garden Bridge. Building London's ...
Textured 3D Model of London 2021 released
Trials are over and AccuCities textured 3D Model of London is now available to all customers! This new dataset was created by wrapping our large and detailed Level 3 city model in editable textures from the latest 2020 high-resolution oblique imagery. The 3D model covers 60 km sq and can be purchas ...
Re-texturing focus buildings in 3D London
AccuCities textured 3D model of London is fully UV mapped. That means that the original textures can be simply altered and textures for street-view angles and focus buildings can be re-textured to higher quality. As an example of this process, we have amended the texture of the House of Fraser buil ...
Supercharged Urban Planning with Plan.City
The new version of Plan.City comes packed with tools to supercharge your Urban Planning tasks. Plan.CityPlan.City 1.1 has been released on the 15th of September 2020. Exactly one year on, urban planning app Plan.City is its third version. It is our biggest update yet and will be the last before Tex ...
Best Specialist 3D City Models Supplier – UK
AccuCities has been awarded the "Best Specialist 3D City Models Supplier - UK" at the prestigious BUILD’s Architecture Awards 2021. Supplying customers with over 2,000 accurate and detailed 3D city models in just over 4 years, AccuCities has been recognised as a key supplier to the architectural in ...
Textured 3D London CGI by Architecture FAB
AccuCities Textured 3D model of London is our brand new, next-generation city model. It is already being used by our customers on live projects, but these projects are in their early stages and so their work is still unpublished. Illustrating the potential of this textured model when used by a prof ...
Architects building the Future London skyline
The City of London, also known as the Square Mile, is a local authority in central London. Covering an area often called “the most expensive square mile in the world”, it is London's finance hub and home of some of the most well-known historical landmarks, including the Tower of London, Unesco’s W ...