{"id":72559,"date":"2026-05-27T02:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/72559\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:52:27","slug":"developer-technology-summit-2025-creating-the-digital-twin-of-zurich-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/72559\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer &#038; Technology Summit 2025: Creating the Digital Twin of Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Developer &amp; Technology Summit 2025, Jim McKinney presented the ArcGIS StoryMap, \u201cCreating the Digital Twin of Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland\u201d, created by Gert Van Maren, as part of his presentation on 3D GIS and Living Digital Twins.<\/p>\n<p>Spatial digital twins are rapidly gaining significance in today\u2019s technology-driven world, becoming a focal point in discussions about urban planning, infrastructure management, and environmental sustainability. As cities grow and evolve, the need for accurate, real-time representations of physical spaces has never been more critical. These digital replicas enable stakeholders to visualize, analyze, and simulate various scenarios, leading to more informed decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>Many organizations are interested in building their own digital twin of the city, campus, facility, construction site, mining operation, windfarm, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/b43b415b07ff4f858f8091e9bbca9810\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This story<\/a> explores how the Digital Twin of Z\u00fcrich in Switzerland was created and how it can be leveraged through various applications.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/b43b415b07ff4f858f8091e9bbca9810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"newsr-image_src\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Digital-Twin.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the Developer &amp; Technology Summit 2025, Jim McKinney presented the ArcGIS StoryMap, \u201cCreating the Digital Twin of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[38445,2745,26536,38446,51],"class_list":["post-72559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-city-of-zurich","tag-developer","tag-digital-twin","tag-esri-developer-and-technology-summit","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116644278854464066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}