Data Update Denmark 🇩🇰: New National LiDAR Building Data

We’re excited to announce that Cityweft now supports a new nationwide dataset of up-to-date, high-precision building heights across all of Denmark.

Using authoritative high-resolution LiDAR data, we generate accurate and consistent 3D building geometry for cities, towns, and rural areas across the country — delivering a new level of realism and reliability for Danish context models.

The updated dataset is live today across the Cityweft platform, plugins, and API, with no additional setup required.

What’s new

🇩🇰 Nationwide building height coverage

Cityweft now provides full Denmark-wide building height coverage, generated from high-precision LiDAR surveys. This ensures consistent, accurate building geometry across urban and non-urban areas alike — from Copenhagen to smaller municipalities.

📡 High-precision LiDAR-derived geometry

The LiDAR data delivers survey-grade elevation accuracy, capturing true building heights and roof forms rather than relying on inferred or averaged values. This significantly improves the fidelity of city massing and terrain representation.

🔌 Seamless integration across workflows

Whether you’re exporting via the web platform, working in Rhino and other plugins, or accessing data through the Cityweft API, the new Denmark building height layer is fully supported and ready to use.

Why this matters

Accurate building heights unlock better analysis and stronger design decisions:

• 🏙️ Context-aware design: Realistic urban massing for early-stage architectural and planning work.

• ☀️ Improved environmental analysis: More reliable shadow studies, solar access analysis, and visibility simulations.

• 📊 Stronger urban metrics: Accurate building volumes and forms for data-driven workflows.

• ⚡ Consistent 3D outputs: Reliable geometry for CAD, BIM, GIS, and parametric design pipelines.

Examples of improvement

With the new LiDAR-based dataset baked directly into Cityweft exports, you’ll notice:

• More faithful urban skylines

• Building heights that reflect real-world survey data

• Improved performance for site modelling, context studies, and simulations

• Cleaner, more consistent geometry compared to OSM-only height inference

Built for Local workflows

This update is especially valuable for projects working within Danish planning and regulatory contexts, where accuracy, consistency, and traceable data sources are essential.

Whether you’re working on:

• early-stage architectural concepts

• urban development proposals

• environmental impact studies

• large-scale masterplanning

Cityweft now provides a reliable nationwide baseline for Denmark.