Simulating Virtual Construction Scenes on OpenStreetMap

Abstract

Nowadays, as more advanced technologies in Virtual Reality (VR) are emerging, virtual training become an important branch of modern construction training programs. However, manually creating virtual construction scenes is time-consuming and effort-demanding for VR developers. Given this observation, we devise a novel procedural modeling approach for simulating virtual construction scenes on OpenStreetMap (OSM) without demanding too much manual effort. According to a series of numerical studies, we demonstrate that, through our proposed approach, parameterized realistic construction sites can be automatically generated in virtual reality given arbitrary location coordinates in the real world with OpenStreetMap data.