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A geospatially accurate 3D model of a building or collection of buildings is used to communicate any type of geo-specific information by way of uniquely recognizable visual or non-visual highlighting such as color or texture coded building visualizations on rooftops or other objects within the 3D mo

A geospatially accurate 3D model of a building or collection of buildings is used to communicate any type of geo-specific information by way of uniquely recognizable visual or non-visual highlighting such as color or texture coded building visualizations on rooftops or other objects within the 3D model.

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1. A method for conveying information within a three-dimensional (3D) map viewable space, the method comprising: receiving an image included in the 3D map viewable space and one or more geo-location tags of visible objects within the image, the visible objects including at least 3D building models r

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A method for conveying information within a three-dimensional (3D) map viewable space, the method comprising: receiving an image included in the 3D map viewable space and one or more geo-location tags of visible objects within the image, the visible objects including at least 3D building models representing real-world physical buildings based on uploaded photographic images mapped to one or more facades of the 3D building models;determining information of interest to a viewer of the 3D map;obtaining a plurality of data sets associated with both the determined information of interest and geo-location tags within the image;segmenting a surface of at least a selected one of the 3D building models into a plurality of segments;mapping the obtained plurality of data sets to the segmented surface based on the determined information of interest and geo-location tags for the selected one of the 3D building models, wherein each of the plurality of segments is mapped to a unique one of the plurality of data sets and collectively represent a single surface of the selected one of the 3D building models; andhighlighting each segment of the segmented surface of the selected one of the 3D building models with a uniquely recognizable highlights to reflect the unique one of the plurality of data sets. 2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising the determining information of interest step performed by any of: a user manual input search request; an input physical location; automatically based on a user's profile; automatically based on geography; automatically based on topography of the 3D map viewable space; using preselected filters to push information possibly of interest to a user; or selecting a subject or topic of interest for a physical building based on the one or more geo-location tags. 3. The method according to claim 1 further comprising the data sets obtained by any of: locally or remotely from third party data providers; an associated search result; created on the fly from available data sets; collection; aggregation or filtering. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the segmented surface comprises one or more rooftop segments collectively representing a rooftop of at least one of the real-world physical buildings. 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the uniquely recognizable highlight comprises a plurality of patterns, colors or a combination thereof to visually represent a plurality of subjects or aspects of the subjects. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mapping the obtained data set includes assigning numerical representations comprising a count or range to the data set. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the highlighting comprises unique colors of a heat map. 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the uniquely recognizable highlights comprises uniquely recognizable colors from a color scheme. 9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the color scheme comprises any of a heat map, visible light color spectrum, reverse visible light color spectrum or selected unique color assignment. 10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the visible objects within the 3D map viewable space comprise any of: facades of one or more buildings or non-building visible objects within the 3D map viewable space; and the plurality of the data sets are mapped for at least a portion of the one or more visible objects within the 3D map viewable space. 11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information of interest comprises one or more subjects which receive a highlighting using a color designation including gradient color changes to represent statistical variances of each of the one or more subjects. 12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the 3D map viewable space is updated to reflect changes to any of: the one or more objects within the 3D map viewable space, a user selection of a different viewpoint for the 3D map viewable space; a user selection of new information from the information of interest, new data added to the data set; or user selection of a new 3D map viewable space. 13. The method according to claim 1 further comprising the visible objects within the 3D map viewable space comprising one or more buildings and the information of interest including any of: building type, building age, building square footage, zoning, business types; information pertaining to occupants of a building; or information about activities in or around one or more buildings. 14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data set comprises aggregated data comprising any of, or a combination of: social media; pictures; advertising news; or points of interest. 15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the uniquely recognizable highlight comprises any of, or a combination of: non-visual cues, sound, tactile feedback or music. 16. A method for conveying information within a three-dimensional (3D) map viewable space, the method comprising: receiving an image included in the 3D map viewable space and one or more geo-location tags of one or more visible objects within the image, the visible objects including at least 3D building models representing real-world physical buildings based on uploaded photographic images mapped to one or more facades of the 3D building models;determining information of interest to a viewer of the 3D map, the information of interest including a plurality of interests; obtaining a plurality of data sets associated with both the determined information of interest and geo-location tags within the image;segmenting a single surface of one or more of one or more visible objects within the image into a plurality of segments;mapping the obtained plurality of data sets to a corresponding one or more of the segmented surfaces of the one or more visible objects within the 3D map viewable space, wherein each one of the plurality of segments is mapped to a unique corresponding one of the plurality of interests; andhighlighting each one of the plurality of segments with a uniquely recognizable highlights to reflect a plurality of the mapped data sets for a corresponding one of the one or more visible objects within the image. 17. A system for conveying information within a 3D map viewable space, the system comprising: one or more computing modules including non-transitory memory and configured to:receive an image included in the 3D map viewable space and one or more geo-location tags of one or more visible building objects within the image, the one or more visible building objects including at least 3D building models representing real-world physical buildings based on uploaded photographic images mapped to one or more facades of the 3D building models;determine information of interest to a viewer of the 3D map;obtain a plurality of data sets associated with both the determined information of interest and the one or more geo-location tags of the one or more visible building objects within the image;segment a single surface of selected visible building objects into a plurality of segments;map the obtained plurality of data sets to one or more segmented surfaces of the one or more visible building objects within the 3D map viewable space, wherein each one of the plurality of segments is mapped to a unique one of the plurality of data sets; andhighlight each one of the segments of the one or more segmented surfaces of the one or more visible building objects with a uniquely recognizable heat map highlight to reflect variances within the mapped plurality of data sets. 18. The system according to claim 17, wherein the one or more computing modules with non-transitory memory are further configured to include information of interest that includes any of: building type, building age, building square footage, zoning, business types; information pertaining to occupants of the one or more visible building objects; or information about activities in or around the one or more visible building objects.