Wellington CBD — OpenTopography

3D Model

Point-cloud data from OpenTopography.

Original LiDAR data had ugly RGB values, so I imported the point-cloud into Metashape and recoloured using an updated aerial, but this proved difficult. I ended up recreating a new point-cloud from Google Earth imagery (using Google Earth Studio), in order to get a less accurate model, and then transferring those colors onto the OpenTopography point-cloud. It worked, but if you look closely the aerial image is slightly off-centred from the point-cloud, which is disappointing. Using more imagery from Google Earth would improve this. Downsampled from ~9m points.

Copyright in the underlying dataset from which this work has been derived is owned by Greater Wellington Regional Council