# Bentley OpenCities Planner Reviews
**Vendor:** Bentley Systems  
**Category:** [Urban Planning and Design Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/urban-planning-and-design)  
**Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 1
## About Bentley OpenCities Planner
OpenCities Planner is a cloud-based service that enables visualization of 2D, 3D, and GIS data in a 3D world. You can design, visualize, and communicate projects from large-scale city developments to detailed architectural designs. Powered by Microsoft Azure, OpenCities Planner is scaled to support users globally and offers robust performance and multilayered security thanks to the extensive network of Microsoft's datacenters. All you need is a web browser as OpenCities Planner is completely web based and plug-in free. OpenCities Planner capabilities combined with Bentley’s reality modeling offerings make city-scale digital twins broadly accessible. Synchronizing reality and ‘virtuality,’ OpenCities Planner offers the perfect web solution to enable every city government in going digital. Scalable for all organization types from individual planners, architects, GIS engineers to city governments, and larger organizations.




## Bentley OpenCities Planner Reviews
  ### 1. Easiest planning tool

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Dr. Tanmay G. | Assistant Professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022

**What do you like best about Bentley OpenCities Planner?**

Bentley tools are always innovative and full of surprises, open city planner is one of them. One can do so much in familiar-looking satellite map view of a city, a really imaginative piece of software.

**What do you dislike about Bentley OpenCities Planner?**

Still discovering the potential of Bentley Open Cities to the full extent, at the very outset it can be safely said that there are not many things to dislike about the software.

**Recommendations to others considering Bentley OpenCities Planner:**

Open planning of cities with Bentley

**What problems is Bentley OpenCities Planner solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Very helpful in planning and research, to map and allocate the right resources with the right emphasis. Its clean user interface provides great visualization options for better productivity.



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## Bentley OpenCities Planner Features
**Plan**
- Documentation
- Sequence
- Annotate
- Collaborate

**Design**
- 3D Modeling
- 3D Rendering

**Analysis**
- Sustainability
- Liveability
- Movement

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