iPhone 3G, InstaMapper App and Google Earth: Tracking the Thames Clipper (3)
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A year ago we ran a post on tracking a train using the Nokia N95 and Sports Tracker. The iPhone 3G is perhaps playing catchup but with a rash of new navigation orientated applications in the Apple Store it is now possible to add tracking capabilities to Apples phone. We took the free InstaMapper application for a spin on a Thames Clipper over the weekend to see how the iPhone 3G's GPS tracking shapes up.InstaMapper ...
Mapping for the Masses: Accessing Web 2.0 through Crowdsourcing (3)
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Our latest working paper is now available for download - entitled Mapping for the Masses: Accessing Web 2.0 through Crowdsourcing.AbstractThe paper first develops the network paradigm that is currently dominating the way we think about the internet and introduce varieties of social networking that are being fashioned in interactive web environments. This serves to ground our arguments about Web 2.0 technologies. These constitute ways in which users of web-based services can take on the role ...
Clay Rendering (1)
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Rendering 3D models can be over complicated, our favorite technique is the quick and easy 'Clay' render using 3DMax.The image above was created in SketchUp and then simply imported into Max using the .3ds export.Once in Max take these simple steps to produce a image similar to the one above:1) Add a 'Skylight' to the scene (click lighting, select a Skylight and click in your scene).The Skylight can be placed anywhere as is not a ...
The Tube Panorama (1)
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The average speed of a Tube train in London is 33 km per hour (20.5mph) - including station stops. This makes capturing a panorama on the Tube tricky due to the movement of the train. Luckily these average figures don't really tell the full story and the Tube is often subject to delays and periods of unexplained stoppages in tunnels.Thus during a particular long delay between Mornington crescent and Camden Town we were able to ...
Flooding London (2)
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With a 3D model it is possible to visualise the impact of sea level change. South London is built on marsh land and is thus more prone to flooding. We have produced a movie that illustrates sea level rise in metres. It clearly picks up the moat around the Tower of London within a metre increase and then follows on to flood most of the Waterloo/South Bank area of London. The movie below does not ...
Union Square San Francisco 'Cut out and Keep' (1)
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After almost 1000 posts its time to head out of the city for a week and have a bit of a break. We are planning on putting the blog on 'automatic' mode with a series of posts from deep within the blog archives.First up is a 'cut and keep' version of Union Square San Francisco, with all the new Web 2.0 mapping companies around the bay area, its one for the desk.Simply download the pdf ...
Air Pollution in the City Visualisation: Nitrogen Dioxide, London (1)
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Air Pollution Visualisation: Nitrogen Dioxide, London from digitalurban on Vimeo.Nitrogen dioxide (NO2): NO2 is produced in high temperature combustion processes and chemical reactions in the atmosphere. Road transport is responsible for 60 per cent of emissions of NOx (the pollutant that causes NO2) in London. It can affect the lungs and airways when exposed over long periods or at high concentrations over a short period.The movie about depicts our visualisation at CASA of N02 in ...
Home Improvement Cost vs. Value (2007) (1)
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As first-time homeowners, we watch more than our share of DIY Network / HGTV / buying and selling home shows. My wife and I work as a team: she concentrates on making home improvements, and I’m concerned with making sure things don’t fall apart. I also worry sometimes that any project we undertake might be a waste of money, or at least, not realize the return that some people promise. I’m sort of haunted by ...
LivePlace: Cities in The Cloud - Remote Rendering (5)
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The movie below would be easy to dismiss as vaporware if it were not for the link to Brad Greenspan, co-founder of MySpace.co. As such it is possibly a first glimpse of a new age of graphics and virtual worlds rendered not on the clients machine but on remote servers in The Cloud. Cloud based computing is currently taking over systems ranging from email to word processing and graphics packages with a number of big ...
Banksy Chambermaid Camden Town: Panorama (1)
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The panorama above was captured in front of the Chambermaid stencil by the artist Banksy, created in May 2006, on the wall of the Roundhouse in Camden. According to an article in the Camden New Journal the maid is a portrait of Leita who worked in a Hotel in Los Angeles.It is embedded in the blog as a first test using a preview/load technique - if you click 'load' then fingers crossed you should be ...
Indexing Reality: Creating a Mine of Geospatial Information (3)
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What if we had an accessible and accurate digital replica of the world? What could we make from it and what new knowledge could we create? Online maps and virtual globes are now becoming common visualization tools for geographic content and immersive geo-referenced imagery is providing a new way to experience the world from a street level perspective. Anthony Fassero co-founder of Earth Mine inc presents an insight into using spatially referenced panoramas for tagging ...
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Britain from Above: BBC 1 Sunday a New Geographic Information Rich view of the Nation (1)
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Britain from Above is 'An epic journey revealing the secrets, patterns and hidden rhythms of our lives from a striking new perspective. Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird's eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways. The series uses cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen ...
Abu Dhabi 2030 (2)
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Plan Abu Dhabi 2030 from squintopera on Vimeo.The Urban Planning Council of Abu Dhabi (UPC) appointed Squint Opera to create a short film illustrating their grand Urban Planning Guide for Abu Dhabi. It was a good choice and Squint Opera's distinct style shines throughout the movie.The film communicates the principles and visualises the UPC plans for the expansion of the city to attract investors, developers and architects. The UPC commissioned this film as an awe-inspiring ...
The Renaissance of Geographic Information: Neogeography, Gaming and Second Life: Working Paper 142 (1)
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The world of Geographic Information (GI) Science has changed. It has experienced expeditious growth over the last few years leading to fundamental changes to the field. Web 2.0, specifically The Cloud, GeoWeb and Wikitecture are revolutionising the way in which we present, share and analyse geographic data.In this paper we outline and provide working examples a suite of tools which are detailed below, aimed at developing new applications of GIS and related technologies. GeoVUE is ...
Bottled Water? What Was I Thinking? (3)
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A few years ago, when I started paying attention to my diet, I found that drinking at least a liter of water a day kept my brain functioning better, and in the case of two liters a day, kept me from gaining weight. Where I was living, the tap water was unpalatable, so I made a habit of stopping at the Kwik-E-Mart and buying some bottled water for the road trip and the rest of ...
Reclaim the Space: Xbox Gaming in the Urban Environment (1)
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We like the concept of using the urban environment as a projector screen to display media, which is why the team behind Urban XBox brought a smile to our face. The concept is simple, plan a route, park up the van (complete with custom myspace url on the side), plug in the projector and fire up the Xbox 360 to display the images on the side of buildings.The movie below is well worth watching: Urban ...
Fractal Cities Book: Now a Free Download (2)
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Michael Batty and Paul Longley's seminal 1994 book entitled 'Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function' is now available as a free download.In the introduction the authors state that...The book presents an initial attempt to apply fractal geometry to cities.In fact, we go beyond this and argue that cities are fractal in form, and that much of our pre-existing urban theory is a theory of the fractal city. As befits a beginning, this book ...
Microsofts Sphere: The Ultimate Virtual Earth Viewer? (2)
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Touch tables, touch tablets and touch phones are all well and good to explore the emerging interfaces and applications of computing but if you spend most of your day immersed in digital geography you really need something more 'earth' shaped.Step forward Microsoft with the first demonstration of the 'Touch Sphere', the movie below shows it in action.Of note is the short demo of the system with a image of the earth. We have already cleared ...
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Building by Numbers: Automated Architecture (1)
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Building By Numbers from Kisa Naumova on Vimeo.The movie above illustrates Kisa Naumova's work to recreate 27 floors of the Leeds School of Contemporary Art and Graphic Design.Kisa used a series of architects' drawings, traced out in Illustrator, and subsequently run through custom made scripts to automatically build the prims in exactly the right places, at the right sizes and rotations. Once in place tweaks were made by hand allowing the building to be completed ...
