Managing Large 3D Urban Database Contents supporting Phototexture and Levels of Detail

We present a method to handle large database contents for visualization of urban scenes. These data consist of geometry (vector data) and phototexture from images (raster data) which have different size and different characteristics. A high emphasis is given to the possibility of remote use (client/server system) and therefore of special concepts to manage, retrieve, transfer and visualize data from local and remote sites.