San Francisco 3D model
Central San Francisco — DXF + STL
By far the largest region in the catalogue: 2.6 × 3.3 km of central San Francisco, taking in the hills west of the Mission. This is the clearest demonstration of what 1 m lidar buys you — a rigid street grid laid over real topography, where the terrain does as much work as the buildings.
This region, in numbers
- Centre
- 37.7700° N
122.4350° W - Extent
- 2,640 m × 3,340 m
- Area
- 8.82 km²
- Terrain resolution
- 1 m
- Projected CRS
- UTM 10N · EPSG:32610
- Formats
- Layered DXF · STL
What to expect here
- Nearly nine square kilometres — an order of magnitude larger than the other city regions here, and a useful stress test of export size.
- Severe relief under a rigid street grid; roads are draped onto the lidar surface rather than flattened.
- Prime USGS 3DEP 1 m lidar coverage, which is what makes the hill profiles hold up at print scale.
- Well above the 1 km² free tier — this one is a paid export.
Where the data comes from
Terrain sources are tried in order and the first one that actually covers the region wins, so the resolution you get depends on what has been flown here:
- 1 USGS 3DEP lidar 1 m
- 2 USGS 3DEP 1/3 arc-second ~10 m
- 3 Copernicus DEM GLO-30 30 m
Buildings, roads, water and landuse come from Overture Maps, which is global and openly licensed. Building heights are used where the source has them.
Practical guide
Turn this region into CAD context
See how to choose useful layers, generate a DXF and verify open-data geometry before using it in a drawing or model.
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