3D Context Exporter (Calgary)

PLACE / Arts/Culture/Other
TYPE / GIS & Cartography
YEAR / 2026 [WIP]

Summary
Existing 3D datasets for Calgary are limited only to fill-extrusions; meaning that roof, facade, and terrain geometries lack high definition details. 

By hosting 3D LiDAR datasets then serving it in 800m x 800m geographic chunks, architectural design teams could extract high-fidelity 3D contexts such as buildings (LiDAR), digital elevation models (DEM, at detailed 2m resolutions), trees, etc. as standard Wavefront .OBJ format. Wavefront .OBJs can be directly edited in Blender and/or Sketchup during feasibility/schematic design phases and architectural visualizations.

Check it out at https://3d-exporter.vercel.app/

Disclaimer
Project is personal use only.
Project is currently a Work In Progress.
[October 2026]

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Source
Data Provided by City of Calgary
URL: https://data.calgary.ca/Base-Maps/3D-Buildings-Citywide/cchr-krqg/about_data

Technologies
QGIS;
Qgis2threejs (QGIS Plugin);
Threebox (ThreeJS for Mapbox);
Mapbox GLJS;
Google Earth;
Blender;
Sketchup;
Python;