This article provides an overview of the Sova3D CIM (City Information Modeling) platform, which has not only been in commercial development in Finland for several years but is also being actively implemented in several Finnish cities to support their planning and management activities. It also looks in detail at Sova3D’s implementation in the city of Järvenpää as well as how it enables online building permitting, which is one of its key use cases.
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I enjoyed reading this article on Sova 3D CIM. Thank you Lachmi. It is clearly written and very comprehensive. I do hope San Francisco adopts this technology. There seem to be staff shortages in the city as obtaining building permits is quite a problem for our developers.