Digital twin
A virtual model kept in live sync with one real physical thing — a term from NASA engineering, not 3D graphics. A city twin is only a twin if the data underneath is real and current.
Most things called digital twins are renderings. The rendering is the easy half.
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Where it comes up
- WP40Stage Three of Eight
- WP37Who Gets to Say It's There
- WP32Legible, Navigable, Writable: What Measuring a City Actually Costs
- WP31Building Nairobi a Second Time: Notes From a Week of Shipping the Twin
- WP30Estimating What We Don't Know: A Confidence-Tiered Height Heuristic for Data-Sparse Cities
- WP29Who's Missing From the Map: Building-Footprint Coverage Gaps in Nairobi's Informal Settlements
- WP28From the CBD to All of Nairobi: A Tile-Streamed Building Pipeline for a City-Scale Twin
Other concepts