The 3D map view lets you inspect risk and conservation outputs with terrain, buildings, roads, and satellite context. Use it after GeoRetina AI has generated or opened a map layer, then switch from Map to 3D inside the Insights Viewer.
3D is a review and communication mode, not a separate analysis agent. The analysis still starts from the same risk, exposure, conservation, or monitoring workflow; 3D helps you understand how the result sits in the surrounding landscape or urban form.
OSM data coverage
The 3D map works where OSM data exists. Areas with richer OSM building, road, water, land-use, and point-of-interest coverage will show richer 3D context; sparse OSM coverage may show fewer 3D details.
When to Use It
- Review flood, heat, wildfire, vegetation, or conservation layers in terrain and building context.
- Communicate where a hazard surface or opportunity layer sits relative to roads, structures, open space, or drainage context.
- Inspect urban risk outputs where building height and surrounding development help explain the result.
- Prepare visual context for stakeholder discussions after the core map layer has been generated.
Map remains the primary analysis surface
Use the 2D Map view for precise layer review, ROI drawing, attribute tables, and detailed feature inspection. Use 3D when terrain, buildings, and visual context make the risk or conservation result easier to understand.
How to Open 3D
- Run or open a risk or conservation output that creates a map layer.
- Open the result in the Insights Viewer.
- Use the Map / 3D toggle in the upper-right of the viewer.
- Keep the relevant layers visible in the layer panel.
- Switch back to Map when you need exact 2D inspection, ROI drawing, or table work.
What Carries Into 3D
The 3D view is built from the current workspace context. Visible map layers, selected regions of interest, raster outputs, vector layers, and layer styling can be passed into the scene so the 3D view matches the result you were already reviewing.
All raster analyses in GRAI can be draped or overlaid on the 3D map. That includes outputs such as flood-depth surfaces, remote-sensing flood risk, wildfire susceptibility, land-cover maps, vegetation indices, urban heat, weather layers, and air-pollution rasters.
The scene can also use satellite surface imagery, terrain, and 3D building context to make risk and conservation outputs easier to interpret visually.
Best Practices
- Start in Map view, confirm the correct layer is visible, then switch to 3D.
- Use 3D for spatial context, screenshots, and communication; use Map and tables for exact values.
- Keep the layer stack simple when presenting. Too many overlays can make the 3D scene harder to read.
- If the 3D view opens away from the result, return to Map, zoom to the area or selected ROI, then switch back to 3D.