Valdrada: compiled city

This dataset holds the runtime content of Valdrada, a real-time digital twin of the five boroughs of New York City compiled from public municipal records. It contains:

• the compiled city as binary streaming tiles;
• the vehicle, pedestrian and prop models, textures, typefaces and skies the renderer loads;
• the built WebGL2 client;
• assets for the offline renderers, Blender Cycles and Unreal Engine 5 (Blender/).

The simulation server of the desktop release serves this folder, as does the interactive demo. The source code, compiler and Python API are in the GitHub repository mkturkcan/valdrada. The Unreal Engine 5 client has its own release files, published with the GitHub release and described in its guide.

Version	v0.6.1 (git tag; use --revision v0.6.1 for a release-matched download; v0.6.0, v0.5.2, v0.5.1, v0.5.0, v0.4.0, v0.3.1, v0.3.0, v0.2.1, v0.2.0 and v0.1.0 keep the earlier releases)
Coverage	Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island: 1,085,937 buildings in 3,532 near tiles and 261 far-field tiles
Contents	building prisms with per-building attributes, streets and markings, lane and sidewalk graphs, street furniture and trees; detailed models of 125th Street, Central Park and Hunters Point; the Statue of Liberty
Size	about 13.6 GB (Content/ 10.0 GB, Blender/ 2.7 GB, media/ 0.9 GB)

Layout

Path	Contents
Content/tiles/	t_<i>_<j>.bin near tiles, far_<i>_<j>.bin far-field tiles, manifest.json, bridges.json
Content/models/	glTF vehicles (fleet24/: the CARLA set, MTA buses, NYPD, USPS, DSNY, school bus, delivery and service vehicles, the NV200 taxi), pedestrian bodies, outfits and animation clips (peds24/, with the Rocketbox set in peds24/rb27/), street props (carla/), street trees (trees25/, trees36/, bxtrees/), Central Park's fountain figures, boulders and rowboat passengers (cp33/), the Alma Mater and the Statue of Liberty (landmarks/, the statue with its NOTICE_liberty.md)
Content/textures/	PBR ground and facade sets (KTX2 and JPEG), the material library (pbr/, 35 sets), Central Park's stone, timber and metal sets (cp33/), shrub and hedge atlases (veg/), eight HDRI skies, city-scale sky-occlusion bake (cityao.*)
Content/index.html, Content/assets/	built client
Content/{data,luts,fonts,basis,settings}/	campus, elevated-rail and landmark geometry, the street-tree inventories and the 125th Street ground fill (data/gf38/), the marinas' dock lines (data/marinas/), the measured ground of the five boroughs, its grading, woodland and highways for the client's ?terrain=p1 and ?hhp=1 (data/terrain_p1/, terrain_p1a/, terrain_grade/, veg_p1/, hhp_p2/); colour LUTs; Inter and the sign typefaces; Basis transcoder; graphics defaults
Blender/	the street tree sets at film detail (bxtrees2/, the default: 51 trees of 12 species forms as Blender files, geometry and textures; bxtrees/, the first set, with impostors) and the window interiors (bxwin/), read by the OpenUSD export in client/tools/ar34/export/ for Blender Cycles and Unreal Engine 5
media/	videos of the city rendered in Unreal Engine 5, H.264 at 1920x1080 and 30 fps with music: nyc_v061_features.mp4 and nyc_v061_features_notext.mp4 (72 s, the features of the 0.6 city, with and without captions), nyc_manhattan_terrain_ue9.mp4 (31 s: Manhattan on its measured ground with its highways) and nyc_aerials_ue13.mp4 (4 min 40 s of aerials); the earlier videos stay at their release tags

Each near tile holds, for one 512 m square in a metric frame (x east, z south):

• building prisms with per-building attributes;
• road, kerb and sidewalk surfaces;
• lane and crosswalk markings;
• the lane and sidewalk graphs for traffic and pedestrians;
• street-furniture placements and tree records.

The client decodes tiles in client/src/world/tiledata.js. client/tools/pipeline/compile.mjs produces them.

Usage

Desktop release (Windows x64). The two release archives on GitHub include this folder (its tiles in the second). To restore it in an extracted release:

hf download mehmetkeremturkcan/valdrada --repo-type dataset --revision v0.6.1 --include "Content/*" --local-dir <release folder>

From source, the client needs the three binary banks (tiles, models, textures). The smaller banks are committed to the repository.

hf download mehmetkeremturkcan/valdrada --repo-type dataset --revision v0.6.1 \
    --include "Content/tiles/*" --include "Content/models/*" --include "Content/textures/*" --local-dir .cache/hf

BUILDING.md in the repository explains how to place the files and how to recompile the tiles from the public sources.

Sources and licences

The tiles derive from NYC Open Data (Building Footprints, PLUTO, facade-inspection filings, Street Centerline, 2015 Street Tree Census, NYC Parks Forestry Tree Points, hydrants, parks, borough boundaries, bus shelters, LinkNYC kiosks, bicycle parking, bus lanes, the Planimetric Database, the DoITT 3D Building Model), New York State open data (MTA subway entrances, NYSERDA distributed solar), OpenStreetMap, USGS 3DEP elevation and NAIP imagery, FHWA MUTCD outlines, green-roof footprints (Treglia et al., The Nature Conservancy, 2016) and Roofpedia (Wu and Biljecki, 2021).

Licences, in brief (LICENSE.md has the full table):

• Compiled city (tiles, derived data): ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Rendered imagery may be used under any terms with that attribution.
• Vehicle, prop and pedestrian models: CC BY 4.0, CARLA Simulator (carla.org), except the Rocketbox pedestrian set (models/peds24/rb27/): MIT, Microsoft Rocketbox Avatar Library. Motion clips (100STYLE) and bag models: CC BY 4.0.
• Original models (the NYC buses, service and delivery vehicles, street trees, the Blender tree sets): CC BY 4.0, M. K. Turkcan. Derived from third-party models: the NV200 taxi ("Dhl delivery van" by memoov) and the box truck's cab ("Isuzu FFR" by mekanismo), CC BY 4.0; the Angel of the Waters ("Engel" by noe-3d.at), CC BY 4.0; the Statue of Liberty ("Statue Of Liberty Bronze Model" by jerryfisher), CC BY 4.0; the cherubs ("Putto auf Fisch" by noe-3d.at) and the boulders (Poly Haven scans), CC0 1.0.
• Textures and skies: CC0 1.0 (Poly Haven, ambientCG). Typefaces: SIL OFL 1.1 (Inter and the sign families), Apache 2.0 (Roboto Slab, Yellowtail). Built client: MIT.

The dataset contains no Street View or other third-party photography.

Citation

Valdrada is developed and maintained by Mehmet Kerem Turkcan. If you use Valdrada, the compiled city or imagery rendered with it, please cite Valdrada itself:

@software{turkcan2026valdrada,
  author  = {Turkcan, Mehmet Kerem},
  title   = {{Valdrada}: a real-data, real-time digital twin of New York City},
  year    = {2026},
  version = {0.6.1},
  url     = {https://github.com/mkturkcan/valdrada}
}