MapBS 3D and launch event

The canton of Basel-Stadt presents its new #3D #geoportal, MapBS 3D, offering interactive 3D maps with detailed building models, construction projects, and several analytical tools. The new portal is introduced in a “lunch & learn” style webinar this Thursday.
Author

Ralph Straumann

Published

June 24, 2025

In its latest newsletter edition, the canton of Basel-Stadt announces the successful conclusion of the “3D Geoportal” project. The most notable outcome of the project is MapBS 3D1.

MapBS 3D with projected and approved construction projects

Besides 3D content such as buildings (including those in Germany, France, and Basel-Landschaft), planned and approved construction projects, bridges, vegetation, oblique aerial imagery and embedded historical images, MapBS 3D also features various analytical functions: measuring heights, distances, and areas, shadow simulation, and visibility or viewshed analysis.

MapBS 3D scene with an embedded historical image

This Thursday (June 26) from 12:00 until 12:45, the Fachstelle Geoinformation of Basel-City will host a “lunch & learn” webinar introducing interested persons to the new 3D geoportal. Details on how to participate can be found in the newsletter. MapBS 3D itself can be accessed and tried out at 3d.geo.bs.ch.

Footnotes

  1. To the English-speaking reader: “BS” being, you know, the official state abbrevation of “Basel-Stadt” (i.e., “Basel-City”).↩︎