Top reasons to use Simurban for urban planning
Simurban software allows you to take all of your existing spatial data (aerial photography, cadastre, heights, 3D models etc) and view it all together in gloriously smooth realtime 3D. It turns your data into a real environment that you can see, hear and interact with. Simurban can reduce litigation between stakeholders in a proposed urban change by up to 80%.
Development Applications
Our clients have told us that Simurban can reduce the time taken to assess development applications by up to 50%. Use Simurban to visualise the impact of a new development. Import CAD models and data from the applicant and see them in immersive 3D.
Viewpoint analysis
Fly to any point in the Simurban World Simulator and perform sight-line analysis. You can even save viewpoints as hotkeys. For example you could be looking at a new development and press hotkeys to fly to Mrs. Complaint's apartment and see the impact on her view. Or see just how much of the sky line is obscured. The options are endless.
Shadow analysis
You can see the shadows from anything at any time and date. We even have preset options just for urban planning, e.g. you can easily change the time to 3PM in the June equinox and see where shadows fall. Forget time consuming shadow diagrams, Simurban lets you do it in realtime.
Conceptual design
Planning a new area? Overlay zoning onto the ground, fill potential forests with trees, change height data to match new developments. Draw a real, rippling, reflective lake. Draw basic building shapes from the aerial photos. You can even show what an area will look like in different stages (e.g. 1 year, 5 years, 10 years). Place preset CAD models in realtime 3D to conceptualise area design on the fly.
Other great features
You can use a 3D tape measure to check building heights and distances, export pictures and movies, develop your own features with our API, and lots of other things.