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Future Insight

Develop your own tools in the 3D viewer with the new Virtual City Map plugin API

Did you know that the new Virtual City Map from Clearly.3D-City is built from an ingenious system of plugins? Standard functionalities such as the 2D and 3D measurement functions, line of sight analyses, planner tools and datasets are all made possible by this flexible plugin structure.


But that's not all! Thanks to the new plugin API, you can now develop additional plugins yourself. Although some programming knowledge is required, our API makes it easy to create new measurement functions, 3D-based analyses and other tools that interact with 3D data. Not a programming expert? No problem, our team is ready to support you!


Get the most out of your 3D viewer, thanks to the API integration with Clearly.HUB

Take for example Clearly.HUB, our Open Urban Platform. Via the API you can consult the Clearly.HUB catalogue and display results directly in the 3D viewer.



The integration of the Clearly.HUB catalogue is just a small example of the many applications that you can link via an API. The possibilities are virtually unlimited. For example, you can add a functionality in your 3D viewer to perform a heat stress simulation with an external application, such as Tygron. You can then look up the necessary data for this simulation in the Clearly.HUB catalogue. You can not only view the results directly in the 3D viewer, but also register them in the Clearly.HUB catalogue, so that others can consult and use them later.


Endless possibilities for urban planning

Whether you want to integrate open data on nature reserves, recreational routes or results of analyses from simulation tools connected to the Open Urban Platform, such as flood simulations or heat stress: our solutions quickly and efficiently bring all relevant information together on one map. This is a valuable tool for urban planners, researchers and policy makers.


Want to learn more about how our API plugin works? Check out the extensive documentation of VCS on the public Github:


And do you want to know how you can connect your application to the Open Urban Platform? Then take a look at the connect page of Clearly.Hub:


With our years of experience and in-depth knowledge in urban data analysis and 3D mapping, we are ready to help you every step of your project. Together we build the smart cities of the future!


Want to know more?

Would you like to know more about Clearly.3D-City or Clearly.HUB?


Please contact Bas Hoorn.

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