{
  "retrieved": "2026-09-18",
  "regions": {
    "tokyo": {
      "features": 22168,
      "building_footprints": 14285,
      "with_height_or_levels": 1466
    },
    "asakusa": {
      "features": 10042,
      "building_footprints": 7783,
      "with_height_or_levels": 543
    },
    "ginza": {
      "features": 3880,
      "building_footprints": 1869,
      "with_height_or_levels": 160
    },
    "shibuya": {
      "features": 6354,
      "building_footprints": 3990,
      "with_height_or_levels": 1426
    },
    "fuji": {
      "features": 15572,
      "building_footprints": 13869,
      "with_height_or_levels": 116
    }
  },
  "buildings": {
    "source": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright",
    "license": "ODbL 1.0",
    "method": "Source footprints, road centre lines and tagged heights are preserved. Missing heights use type-based estimates. Facade windows, roof equipment and temple/tower details are interpreted. Relations with holes and full survey-grade elevation are not reconstructed."
  },
  "terrain": {
    "source": "https://maps.gsi.go.jp/development/demtile.html",
    "tiles": "https://cyberjapandata.gsi.go.jp/xyz/dem/11/{x}/{y}.txt",
    "grid": 257,
    "vertical_exaggeration": 1,
    "method": "GSI DEM resampled to 257×257, with no vertical exaggeration. Runtime objects use bilinear ground interpolation; the Tokyo district now includes the surrounding 9×7 km area. Land colour comes from georeferenced GSI aerial imagery. Cloud shading and sunlight are artistic approximations.",
    "tokyo_tiles": "https://cyberjapandata.gsi.go.jp/xyz/dem/14/{x}/{y}.txt"
  },
  "camera": {
    "recorded_viewpoint": [
      139.004962,
      35.333918
    ],
    "fuji_view": "Oblique geographical overview. The marker records the supplied location; the flying camera is not claimed to match the exact photograph.",
    "roppongi": "Mori Tower east side, camera at 250 m above sea level; source https://www.city.minato.tokyo.jp/documents/123403/minatocitytouristmap2026_en2.pdf. Tokyo Tower retains the PLATEAU position and a published 333 m height.",
    "tower_close": "Elevated near view to reveal the open structure without foreground buildings; not a ground-level photograph reconstruction."
  },
  "coastline": {
    "source": "https://www.naturalearthdata.com/",
    "license": "Public domain",
    "resolution": "1:110m"
  },
  "models": "Blender sources: models/geo/*.blend; GLB compression: glTF Transform meshopt, 16-bit positions",
  "reference_conversation": "https://chatgpt.com/share/6aacc29d-63e0-83ec-b20f-692466fb6da1",
  "plateau": {
    "source": "https://api.plateauview.mlit.go.jp/datacatalog/3dtiles/13103-bldg-lod2-texture-latest/tileset.json",
    "mcp": "https://api.plateauview.mlit.go.jp/mcp",
    "dataset": "d_13103_bldg / 港区 2025 LOD2 texture",
    "credit": "東京都・港区 / 国土交通省 Project PLATEAU",
    "license_reference": "https://www.mlit.go.jp/plateau/site-policy/",
    "tiles": 99,
    "origin": [
      139.74543,
      35.65858
    ],
    "geoid_height_m": 36.594486635,
    "method": "Official b3dm meshes and texture atlases. RTC ECEF converted to local east/up/south, 100 metres per unit; GSI terrain at MSL. Textures resized to 512 pixels for distant tiles and 2048 at landmarks; meshopt position quantization 16-bit; no silhouette simplification. Texture-based glazing roughness and night lighting are artistic approximations, not surveyed material classifications. Some source buildings have no facade texture. Meshes cast cached directional shadows. Untextured surfaces receive a neutral mineral base and interpreted window divisions; their original mesh silhouette is preserved."
  },
  "sky": {
    "source": "Original image generated with built-in imagegen, 2026-09-18",
    "file": "images/cinematic-sky.png",
    "role": "Illustrative sky and reflection environment, not weather evidence",
    "prompt": "images/cinematic-sky-prompt.txt"
  },
  "imagery": {
    "source": "https://maps.gsi.go.jp/development/ichiran.html",
    "credit": "国土地理院 地理院タイル（全国最新写真）",
    "tiles": "https://cyberjapandata.gsi.go.jp/xyz/seamlessphoto/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg",
    "fuji": "132 tiles at zoom 13; 3072×2816 WebP mosaic projected onto the DEM",
    "tokyo": "80 tiles at zoom 15; 2560×2048 WebP mosaic projected onto the DEM",
    "method": "Label-free aerial images used as the terrain material; not map screenshots. Tile mosaics mix capture dates and seasons. Snow, vegetation and shadows are source imagery, not a reconstruction of August weather. Imagery bounds and projection metadata are in geodata/*-imagery.json."
  },
  "city_context": {
    "source": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright",
    "license": "ODbL 1.0",
    "file": "geodata/tokyo-context.json",
    "features": 15880,
    "method": "True footprints outside PLATEAU coverage, within five kilometres of Tokyo Tower. Tagged heights retained; absent heights estimated by building type. Small distant footprints omitted for performance. Colours use valid building:colour tags when supplied, otherwise a neutral shade; window materials are interpreted."
  },
  "districts": {
    "record": "geodata/district-sources.json",
    "description": "Official PLATEAU 2025 textured LOD2: 58 Taito tiles and 30 Chuo tiles. GSI terrain/aerial imagery and OSM context retain separate district coordinates. Four simplified Sensoji structures are replaced with original detail informed by official dimensions; not a survey."
  },
  "tokyo_tower": {
    "sources": [
      "https://www.tokyotower.co.jp/plan/towerpedia/",
      "https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/101/00009591"
    ],
    "file": "tokyo-tower.js",
    "method": "Original open steel-lattice geometry replacing only data248 feature95 (bldg_7aff4a51-be8b-405b-abe4-ac489697cbc8), 333 m overall, 80 m foot separation, 150/250 m observation decks. Original PLATEAU base elevation retained. Individual steel members, joints and FootTown facades are visual approximations.",
    "triangles": 23052
  },
  "font": {
    "source": "https://github.com/lxgw/LxgwWenKai-Screen",
    "license": "fonts/wenkai-OFL.txt",
    "file": "fonts/tokyo-wenkai.woff2",
    "method": "Renamed local subset with GB2312, kana and page characters."
  }
}
