Apollonio, Fabrizio I.Gaiani, MarcoBaldissini, SimoneAlessandro Artusi and Morwena Joly and Genevieve Lucet and Denis Pitzalis and Alejandro Ribes2014-02-012014-02-012010978-3-905673-76-0https://doi.org/10.2312/PE/VAST/VAST10S/083-086We describes a 3D GIS system entirely founded on Google Earth (GE), designed to make available on this platform high-quality 3D models of one of the architect Andrea Palladio, conceived as a metaphor for navigating through the data and developed as a scalable applications able to allow the use of the same database for different user simply filtering the data according to the specific requirements.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.5 Physically based modeling; I.3.7 Virtual reality; I.3.7 Color, shading, shadowing, and texture