A method and system for creating, using, and managing a three-dimensional
digital model of the physical environment combines outdoor terrain
elevation and land-use information, building placements, heights and
geometries of the interior structure of buildings, along with
site-specific models of components that are distributed spatially within
a physical environment. The present invention separately provides an
asset management system that allows the integrated three-dimensional
model of the outdoor, indoor, and distributed infrastructure equipment to
communicate with and aggregate the information pertaining to actual
physical components of the actual network, thereby providing a management
system that can track the on-going performance, cost, maintenance
history, and depreciation of multiple networks using the site-specific
unified digital format.