Sometime you need those homemade gadgets to get the look you desire, music by Brian Beilke and JM Franc.
2010-04-30
Timelapse: You Can See Chicago From Here
We like this timelapse as its professionally captured yet the photographer, Brett Foxwell, notes it was filmed entirely with a DSLR camera mounted upon various home-made motion control gadgets.
Sometime you need those homemade gadgets to get the look you desire, music by Brian Beilke and JM Franc.
Sometime you need those homemade gadgets to get the look you desire, music by Brian Beilke and JM Franc.
Skape - 3D City Viewer and Download Tool: New Movie and Demo Online
Earlier this week we had the pleasure of meeting the people from Infoterra for a demo of their recently released 3D city viewer. Known as 'Skape' it enables you to view and perhaps more importantly upload and download highly realistic 3D environments, for visual concepts and interaction with building information. With 12 cities in the UK now available the level of detail and fidelity in the textures is notable. We tend to get quite a few companies through the doors of CASA with 3D models and we can honestly say Skape is the best we have seen so far. The movie below provides an overview, its interesting to see how far the industry has come in just a few short years:
Skape is designed as a professional tool, moving it away from the current models and level of functionality found in Google Earth or Bing. It is aimed at a range of industries, including architecture, planning, building development and environmental consultation. However, it is free to view the cities and at the moment free to create movies as well, as such it makes for an interesting spatial analysis and visualization tool.
Take a look at http://www.skapeworld.com/index.htm for more info and to try it out.
Skape is designed as a professional tool, moving it away from the current models and level of functionality found in Google Earth or Bing. It is aimed at a range of industries, including architecture, planning, building development and environmental consultation. However, it is free to view the cities and at the moment free to create movies as well, as such it makes for an interesting spatial analysis and visualization tool.
Take a look at http://www.skapeworld.com/index.htm for more info and to try it out.
2010-04-29
Crowd Sourced Data: The Copenhagen Wheel for Pollution, Congestion and Road Conditions in Real-Time
This is one of the best projects we have seen in sometime, borderline genius - the Copenhagen Wheel. The project transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid e-bikes that also function as mobile sensing units. The Copenhagen Wheel allows you to capture the energy dissipated while cycling and braking and save it for when you need a bit of a boost. It also maps pollution levels, traffic congestion, and road conditions in real-time.
Controlled through your smart phone, the Copenhagen Wheel becomes a natural extension of your everyday life. You can use your phone to unlock and lock your bike, change gears and select how much the motor assists you. As you cycle, the wheels sensing unit is also capturing your effort level and information about your surroundings, including road conditions, carbon monoxide, NOx, noise, ambient temperature and relative humidity.
Access this data through your phone or the web and use it to plan healthier bike routes, to achieve your exercise goals or to meet up with friends on the go. You can also share your data with friends, or with your city - anonymously if you wish thereby contributing to a fine-grained database of environmental information from which we can all benefit.
Controlled through your smart phone, the Copenhagen Wheel becomes a natural extension of your everyday life. You can use your phone to unlock and lock your bike, change gears and select how much the motor assists you. As you cycle, the wheels sensing unit is also capturing your effort level and information about your surroundings, including road conditions, carbon monoxide, NOx, noise, ambient temperature and relative humidity.
Access this data through your phone or the web and use it to plan healthier bike routes, to achieve your exercise goals or to meet up with friends on the go. You can also share your data with friends, or with your city - anonymously if you wish thereby contributing to a fine-grained database of environmental information from which we can all benefit.
2010-04-28
Back to 1999 - Still Love Canoma
Canoma was released in 1999 and had the classic, but sadly long gone Metacreations interface, the work flow was painfully simple and a 3D model could be built and textured mapped in under an hour. Quite simply Canoma changed the way we modelled the environment and introduced photorealisic 3D models to the web for the first time.
The difference in Canoma, compared to other photomodelling packages available at the time, was the ability to model directly over the photograph without the need to add in tedious camera reference points or lens parameters. Canoma allowed the user to simply load in one or more photographs and start adding primitives directly over the image. Using the options to align and stack objects it was possible to create a texture mapped 3D model from a single photograph, something that just isn't available today in comparable quality.
The ability to model from single photograph and a complete lack of research funding at the time led to us develop models direct from postcards. Postcards make good candidates for 3D modelling as they are often taken from an oblique angle. Canoma thrived on oblique photography and thus we would often be found around the tourist spots of London buying up the best imagery.
The first in our Canoma output movies was created from two postcards, the prospect to model from such low resolution input would be unthinkable in today's megapixel world, yet at the time it was shown at a series of conferences on 3D modelling:
Houses of Parliament in Canoma
In addition to the simple modelling tools of Canoma it had enough export options to move your model into high-end software such a 3DMax or publish direct to the web in the then emerging 3D viewer standard of MetaStream (now known as Viewpoint). Viewpoint is sadly as shell of its former self, it went from one of the leading lights in 3D model distribution on the web with a large user base of developers to a company accused of distributing Spyware and charging high fees for licensing. As such Viewpoint is sadly filed in the folder of 'could of been' in the fight for dominance in the 3D visualisation market.
Along side the standard exports was a special edition of Canoma, kindly coded by Robert Seldi, Canomas Product Manager. Robert sent us a patch for Canoma to export to the Renderware (.rwx) format, this opened up the possibility of importing the models direct to ActiveWorlds.
30 Days in ActiveWorlds back in 1999 featured photorealistic streets in a multi-user collaborative environment. With no laws or building rules it was an experiment in collaborative architecture with over 80,000 objects being placed in a world the size of Soho in London over a period of 12 months. You can read more about 30 Days in ActiveWorlds in our paper.
The ability to produce rapid 3D models is something we look back on now and wonder what happened and why hasn't the technology moved on? With the breakup of Metacreations the Canoma product was sold to Adobe in 2000. In a press release in August 2000 Adobe stated that:
'To help creative professionals move into the world of 3D, Adobe acquired MetaCreations' Canoma‘ product, which creates 3D models from images created in Adobe' Photoshop“ and outputs finished files to the Web. Adobe will announce its future plans for this product line at a later date'.
The press release was the last that was ever heard of Canoma, despite version 2.0 being almost complete when the product was acquired by Adobe, future plans were never announced. Shortly afterwards Adobe moved into the 3D world with their Adobe Atmosphere product. Atmosphere lasted a year before being cancelled and is the subject of forthcoming post in this series - what it is with Adobe (?).
Canary Wharf in Canoma
Microsoft's Bing includes 'Birds Eye' images which provide various views around buildings. As such although it breaks all the ground rules of photogrammety by grabbing screen shots you can make a 3D model in Canoma:
The movie below details the basic output:
You could of course then port the model across to Google Earth in a slightly ironic way to create models for the 3D warehouse..
Eleven years on and their is still no software to match Canoma's ease of use for 3D modelling, not even the beloved SketchUp - we miss it and if you can get hold of a copy on ebay we encourage you to. The output is not going to live up to the latest technology but for a few hours its worth going back to 1999 and realising just how good it was.
For more info take a look at Canoma.com - just try not to get upset at the details of Canoma 2.0 which was about to be released before the buyout to Adobe and they simply failed to do anything with it.
3D Art: Extracting Geometry from Paintings
Revisiting a previous post, sometimes I look at paintings and think wouldn't it be great to fly inside that scene. So, using a section of Visscher's panoramic view of London circa 1616, we put in lines of perspective and traced around the main features.
As the movie above shows you can then create a 3D flythough or indeed a full 3D model. We also put the painting into ActiveWorlds with avatars a while ago and its kind of interesting to not only have 3D art but also see people walking around a picture.
How was it done? Take a look at our follow up post Back to 1999 - Still Love Canoma.
2010-04-27
Airspace Rebooted Movie
We are always suckers for data visualisation clips and this one of the northern European airspace returning to use after being closed due to volcanic ash is great. Due to varying ash density across Europe, the first flights can be seen in some areas on the 18th and by the 20th everywhere is open:
The flight data is courtesy of flightradar24.com and covers a large fraction of Europe. There are a few gaps (most noticeably France) and no coverage over the Atlantic, but the picture is still clear.
The map data is CC-by-SA openstreetmap.org and contributors.
This CC-by-SA visualisation was produced by itoworld.com with support from ideasintransit.org
The flight data is courtesy of flightradar24.com and covers a large fraction of Europe. There are a few gaps (most noticeably France) and no coverage over the Atlantic, but the picture is still clear.
The map data is CC-by-SA openstreetmap.org and contributors.
This CC-by-SA visualisation was produced by itoworld.com with support from ideasintransit.org
2010-04-26
Tweeting from Conferences - Live Criticism and How to Cope
We write occasionally for the Nature Network, as such we thought readers maybe interested in our latest post on the rise of twitting at events and conferences.
A few weeks ago we presented our latest work 'The Geography of Everything' at the yearly conference organised by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. With the work featured in New Scientist and based around a new way of tagging every object in the world via the talesofthings.com site we hoped for a good reception. Indeed the reception was good with an excellent write up in the Guardian and a series of suitably scientific questions fielded and answered. What we were not quite prepared for was the archive of the tweet feed with various audience members 'tweeting' through the event.
Carry on reading over at Urban Nature...
Carry on reading over at Urban Nature...
Radio 4 Click On Interview - 16.30 Today and Online
Last week we went up to Broadcasting House in London and met the nice people behind the Radio 4 show 'Click On'.
The show explores the latest developments in from the world of information technology, and how these affect our lives. We were interviewed about the latest project TalesofThings, where you can tag anything and everything and leave your memories attached to objects.
As part of the tagging architecture side of the work we officially 'tagged' broadcasting house. The TalesofThings qrcode is now in the lobby, pictured left is the Click On presenter Simon Cox. Using our free iPhone app you can record your memories of the building.
Indeed, you can tag anything - TalesofThings provides a free, quick and easy way to link any media to any object via small printable tags known as qr codes or rfid labels. How about tagging your old antique clock, a building, or perhaps that object you're about to put on eBay. Last week we placed a tag on a wall in Camden Town, London which brings a long lost Banksy back to life, the tag can be scanned and new memories attached to it. Its an easy way to create a new type of network in the city.
Click On is broadcast Mondays at 4.30pm on Radio 4 with the podcast available shortly after.
Find out more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/clickon
As part of the tagging architecture side of the work we officially 'tagged' broadcasting house. The TalesofThings qrcode is now in the lobby, pictured left is the Click On presenter Simon Cox. Using our free iPhone app you can record your memories of the building.
Indeed, you can tag anything - TalesofThings provides a free, quick and easy way to link any media to any object via small printable tags known as qr codes or rfid labels. How about tagging your old antique clock, a building, or perhaps that object you're about to put on eBay. Last week we placed a tag on a wall in Camden Town, London which brings a long lost Banksy back to life, the tag can be scanned and new memories attached to it. Its an easy way to create a new type of network in the city.
Click On is broadcast Mondays at 4.30pm on Radio 4 with the podcast available shortly after.
Find out more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/clickon
2010-04-23
Banksy is Tagged - The Maid Returns to Camden
As part of TalesofThings we are tagging the city, putting memories and history onto the streets and allow people to leave their own thoughts and experiences via the free TalesofThings qrcode and iPhone app.
One of our favorite parts of London was around Camden Town and the Bansky Maid stencil which is now sadly long gone due to the short sighted view of the council. However, before it was painted over we captured a 360 x 180 panorama of the site, allowing you to travel back in time and see how the wall looked.
The tag is now stuck to the wall, simply go up to Chalk Farm, scan the tag and see how the wall used to look, complete with a Banksy. You can also scan the tag direct from the image above using the free iPhone TalesofThings app.
You can tag anything and everything and get the app via talesofthings.com
One of our favorite parts of London was around Camden Town and the Bansky Maid stencil which is now sadly long gone due to the short sighted view of the council. However, before it was painted over we captured a 360 x 180 panorama of the site, allowing you to travel back in time and see how the wall looked.
The tag is now stuck to the wall, simply go up to Chalk Farm, scan the tag and see how the wall used to look, complete with a Banksy. You can also scan the tag direct from the image above using the free iPhone TalesofThings app.
You can tag anything and everything and get the app via talesofthings.com
2010-04-22
Free: The Digital Urban Booklet
We are pleased to announce the free availability of our booklet: Digital Geography - Geographic Visualisation for Urban Environments. Previously available for £9.99 and printed in full colour the 10 x 8 inch booklet runs to 64 pages of insights and tutorials on Virtual Earth, Google Earth, Google Maps, Panoramas and Second Life.With a focus on Neogeography, Web 2.0 and the various emerging techniques for urban visualisation the booklet has been written as a preview to the forthcoming Digital Urban 'recipe book.
We have made the booklet available via Issuu - you can read it below:
We hope you enjoy the booklet, it works well in full screen mode. You can also download it direct as a pdf file (74Mb).
You can read the rest of our publications via our main publications thread.
2010-04-21
Making 'Objects' Tweet
You may of noticed that we recently launched our project 'TalesofThings', a site that tags any media to any object using qrcodes or rfid tags:
Once tagged each object basically gets its own webpage allowing comments to be placed, new media added such as YouTube clips, Audioboo, Vimeo etc and new tales tagged to the codes.
An interesting take on this is that once these tags are placed in the wild and scanned with the free iPhone app they become read/writable and therefore location aware. As such any object you tag with the site can 'Tweet' each time it is scanned. If you tag a landmark for example, each time that tag is read you can get a tweet that says 'Hey, I've just been scanned'. Once scanned new tales or comments can be added to that tag, creating a social network of 'things' and 'locations'.
We are working on ways to make the objects more location aware and aware of near by objects, it could be interesting over the next few months to see how this develops. You can see all the things added to far on the 'world of things map':
Once tagged each object basically gets its own webpage allowing comments to be placed, new media added such as YouTube clips, Audioboo, Vimeo etc and new tales tagged to the codes.
An interesting take on this is that once these tags are placed in the wild and scanned with the free iPhone app they become read/writable and therefore location aware. As such any object you tag with the site can 'Tweet' each time it is scanned. If you tag a landmark for example, each time that tag is read you can get a tweet that says 'Hey, I've just been scanned'. Once scanned new tales or comments can be added to that tag, creating a social network of 'things' and 'locations'.
We are working on ways to make the objects more location aware and aware of near by objects, it could be interesting over the next few months to see how this develops. You can see all the things added to far on the 'world of things map':
You can start tagging anything and everything via talesofthings.com
Tagging technology – is the future bright?
Tagging technology – is the future bright?
An invitation to think about where this technology might go and about its implications
Public Workshop 10 May 2010, 1-5 pm at ‘Inspace’ on Crichton Street, Edinburgh
What’s in it for you?
Are you worried about tagging technologies or excited about future possible applications? Or do you simply want to find out more about the technology and/or possible implications? Whether you are someone who might benefit from tagging technology or want to find effective ways to protect privacy with the technology or are involved in developing new applications or just plain interested – we invite you to participate in a public event on the subject on Monday 10 May in Edinburgh.
The event will take the form of an interactive workshop, and include a technical demonstration of one type of tagging technology, called RFID, plus a film about possible dangers associated with it. This is an opportunity not only to find out more about the technology and consider what wider implications there may be; it is also a rare opportunity to shape the technology in some modest way – by contributing to the debate about possible problems and to opening up ideas about possible future developments.
Who is organising the event?
The event has been organised by TOTeM - the people behind the site http://www.talesofthings.com which you may of noticed mentioned here on digital urban recently. Through this event we want to better understand how diverse groups view technologies like RFID, and to encourage constructive criticism and ideas for future developments. This will help inform our research, and form the basis of a publication on public perceptions of new tagging technology.
We would also like to thank John Welford from NO2ID Edinburgh for his guidance on privacy and surveillance issues. NO2ID Edinburgh is one of many local groups across the UK campaigning against the introduction of compulsory ID cards and a National Identity Register.
Places are free but limited so if you would like to come please contact Jane Macdonald: Tel: 0131 221 6187 or email jane.macdonald@eca.ac.uk
We would love to get conversations going in the lead up to the event and after so if you have any initial feedback on the topic or indeed on the event itself then please do visit our blog http://rfidevent.wordpress.com/
2010-04-16
Tales of Things Goes Live - Its a Memory Thing
April 16th, 11.42 am and the research project born 18 months ago 'Tales of Things' goes live, documented as the site is all about memories and attaching media to objects via qrcodes and rfid:
Tales of Things is part of a research project called TOTeM that will explore social memory in the emerging culture of the Internet of Things. Researchers from across the UK have provided this site as a platform for users to add stories to their own treasured objects and to connect to other people who share similar experiences. This will enable future generations to have a greater understanding of the object’s past and offers a new way of preserving social history.
Content will depend on real people’s stories which can be geo-located through an on-line map of the world where participants can track their object even if they have passed it on. The object will also be able to update previous owners on its progress through a live Twitter feed which will be unique to each object entered into the system.
The project will offer a new way for people to place more value on their own objects in an increasingly disposable economy. As more importance is placed on the objects that are already parts of people’s lives it is hoped that family or friends may find new uses for old objects and encourage people to think twice before throwing something away.
The Tales of Things site is located within the emerging technical and cultural phenomenon known as ‘The Internet of Things’. The term is attributed to the Auto-ID research group at MIT in 1999, and was explored in depth by the International Telecommunication Union who published a report bearing the same name at the United Nations net summit in 2005. The term, ‘Internet of things’, refers to the technical and cultural shift that is anticipated as society moves towards a ubiquitous form of computing in which every device is ‘on’, and every device is connected in some way to the Internet. The specific reference to ‘things’ refers to the concept that every new object manufactured will also be able to part of this extended Internet, because they will have been tagged and indexed by the manufacturer during production. It is also envisaged that consumers will have the ability to ‘read’ the tags through the use of mobile ‘readers’ and use the information connected to the object, to inform their purchase, use and disposal of an object.
The implications for the Internet of Things upon production and consumption are tremendous, and will transform the way in which people shop, store and share products. The analogue bar code that has for so long been a dumb encrypted reference to a shop’s inventory system, will be superseded by an open platform in which every object manufactured will be able to be tracked from cradle to grave, through manufacturer to distributor, to potentially every single person who comes into contact with it following its purchase. Further still, every object that comes close to another object, and is within range of a reader, could also be logged on a database and used to find correlations between owners and applications. In a world that has relied upon a linear chain of supply and demand between manufacturer and consumer via high street shop, the Internet of Things has the potential to transform how we will treat objects, care about their origin and use them to find other objects.
If every new object is within reach of a reader, everything is searchable and findable, subsequently the shopping experience may never be the same, and the concept of throwing away objects may become a thing of the past as other people find new uses for old things.
TOTeM is funded through a £1.39 million research grant from the Digital Economy Research Councils UK. The project is a collaboration between Brunel University, Edinburgh College of Art, University College London, University of Dundee and the University of Salford.
You can download the press release from here
Tales of Things is part of a research project called TOTeM that will explore social memory in the emerging culture of the Internet of Things. Researchers from across the UK have provided this site as a platform for users to add stories to their own treasured objects and to connect to other people who share similar experiences. This will enable future generations to have a greater understanding of the object’s past and offers a new way of preserving social history.
Content will depend on real people’s stories which can be geo-located through an on-line map of the world where participants can track their object even if they have passed it on. The object will also be able to update previous owners on its progress through a live Twitter feed which will be unique to each object entered into the system.
The project will offer a new way for people to place more value on their own objects in an increasingly disposable economy. As more importance is placed on the objects that are already parts of people’s lives it is hoped that family or friends may find new uses for old objects and encourage people to think twice before throwing something away.
The Tales of Things site is located within the emerging technical and cultural phenomenon known as ‘The Internet of Things’. The term is attributed to the Auto-ID research group at MIT in 1999, and was explored in depth by the International Telecommunication Union who published a report bearing the same name at the United Nations net summit in 2005. The term, ‘Internet of things’, refers to the technical and cultural shift that is anticipated as society moves towards a ubiquitous form of computing in which every device is ‘on’, and every device is connected in some way to the Internet. The specific reference to ‘things’ refers to the concept that every new object manufactured will also be able to part of this extended Internet, because they will have been tagged and indexed by the manufacturer during production. It is also envisaged that consumers will have the ability to ‘read’ the tags through the use of mobile ‘readers’ and use the information connected to the object, to inform their purchase, use and disposal of an object.
The implications for the Internet of Things upon production and consumption are tremendous, and will transform the way in which people shop, store and share products. The analogue bar code that has for so long been a dumb encrypted reference to a shop’s inventory system, will be superseded by an open platform in which every object manufactured will be able to be tracked from cradle to grave, through manufacturer to distributor, to potentially every single person who comes into contact with it following its purchase. Further still, every object that comes close to another object, and is within range of a reader, could also be logged on a database and used to find correlations between owners and applications. In a world that has relied upon a linear chain of supply and demand between manufacturer and consumer via high street shop, the Internet of Things has the potential to transform how we will treat objects, care about their origin and use them to find other objects.
If every new object is within reach of a reader, everything is searchable and findable, subsequently the shopping experience may never be the same, and the concept of throwing away objects may become a thing of the past as other people find new uses for old things.
TOTeM is funded through a £1.39 million research grant from the Digital Economy Research Councils UK. The project is a collaboration between Brunel University, Edinburgh College of Art, University College London, University of Dundee and the University of Salford.
You can download the press release from here
2010-04-14
New Scientist and Beyond the Beyond - TalesofThings
New Scientist have a good write up this week on our new project - TalesofThings its also been picked up by Bruce Stirling over at Beyond Beyond on Wired and to be honest we are blown away.
News in, the iPhone app has been accepted so with a few more tweaks and plugging in of wires we will be ready to go beta end of the week.
We also have some neat gadget hacks including an iPhone/Android RFID reader on the cards which we plan to put onto MAKE or such like so you can build your own kit.
News as ever will be here on digital urban and via the TalesofThings Twitter Feed.
We will get back to the more general posts btw, soon as we get chance, and news on that MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation which we direct, next week.
Update - the MRes details are now online along with application and entry.
News in, the iPhone app has been accepted so with a few more tweaks and plugging in of wires we will be ready to go beta end of the week.
We also have some neat gadget hacks including an iPhone/Android RFID reader on the cards which we plan to put onto MAKE or such like so you can build your own kit.
News as ever will be here on digital urban and via the TalesofThings Twitter Feed.
We will get back to the more general posts btw, soon as we get chance, and news on that MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation which we direct, next week.
Update - the MRes details are now online along with application and entry.
2010-04-12
QR Code / RFID / Any Media - The TalesofThings Trailer
With the code being worked on as we type around the desks of CASA and digital urban, and with preparations going on around the partner institutions of Brunel, Dundee, Edinburgh College of Art and Salford University - Tales of Things enters beta in just a few days:
Any object, any media, geolocated with the ability to read/write - what will you tag? Going to FutureEverything? TalesofThings are there as a featured artist.
TalesofThings - its a memory thing, you can follow developments on Twitter...
Any object, any media, geolocated with the ability to read/write - what will you tag? Going to FutureEverything? TalesofThings are there as a featured artist.
TalesofThings - its a memory thing, you can follow developments on Twitter...
2010-04-10
deformations
Viralata produced the movie below as a test working on 3D architectural design with Blender.He started to study how to use modifiers to get a shape that adapts automatically to the floors, adding the ability to "sculpt" the building easily and see the result.
déformations from Viralata on Vimeo.
The music is from Nikila: jamendo.com/fr/artist/nikila
Despite only being a test, we rather like it...
The music is from Nikila: jamendo.com/fr/artist/nikila
Despite only being a test, we rather like it...
2010-04-09
Data is the New Business Battleground
Well according to Greenplum it is and to be honest, we agree - data is everything. Of course it has to be quality data, backed up by suitable analysis, preferably spatial, the movie below makes a good point:
Your Data Rules the World - trailer from Greenplum Software on Vimeo.
If data is the new battleground then you would be wise to sign up for a MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV) at University College London, we will have more news on our recently approved course as soon as we can blog about it. Although, if your looking for a Masters course starting September you might want to wait for details before you sign up elsewhere...
Your Data Rules the World - trailer from Greenplum Software on Vimeo.
If data is the new battleground then you would be wise to sign up for a MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV) at University College London, we will have more news on our recently approved course as soon as we can blog about it. Although, if your looking for a Masters course starting September you might want to wait for details before you sign up elsewhere...
2010-04-08
Coming Soon from the CASA Team - SurveyMapper
As promised some more details on our second project coming out of recent grants here at CASA, University College London and digital urban - SurveyMapper. We can't say too much at the moment, but its custom written from the ground up and and could be quite a useful tool for anyone wanting to undertake a survey, complete with locational mapping while maintaining access to the raw data.
In short, its real-time mapping, crowd sourcing, model validation, spatial analysis and name of the giraffe? - Meet 'Roger'. Sometimes science and geography don't have to be 'academic', with this one we have hidden the science firmly behind the scenes, but it really is quite clever. SurveyMapper is part of the NeISS project (National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation) and has been funded by the JISC via its Information Environment Programme.
Follow updates on Twitter - http://twitter.com/surveymapper/
In short, its real-time mapping, crowd sourcing, model validation, spatial analysis and name of the giraffe? - Meet 'Roger'. Sometimes science and geography don't have to be 'academic', with this one we have hidden the science firmly behind the scenes, but it really is quite clever. SurveyMapper is part of the NeISS project (National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation) and has been funded by the JISC via its Information Environment Programme.
Follow updates on Twitter - http://twitter.com/surveymapper/
Tales, MRes and Mapping - A DU Update
Our apologies for the slow week on the blog - its due to the current move to launch two projects this month. We have just been down the road to pick up a bit of kit - all with the aim of opening the box containing the Internet of Things.
Follow Tales of Things on Twitter for more news and information, its going to change the way you look at the city. We did say two projects - more on the other later today or tomorrow.
If that wasn't enough to keep us busy, we also have our new one year MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV) cleared by the University. If you would like to join us here in CASA, University College London, to learn the latest in urban modelling, GIS, visualisation and location based technologies keep an eye out on the blog, or follow us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/digitalurban/ the course starts September 2010.
News on how to enroll and full details can be found here.
If that wasn't enough to keep us busy, we also have our new one year MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV) cleared by the University. If you would like to join us here in CASA, University College London, to learn the latest in urban modelling, GIS, visualisation and location based technologies keep an eye out on the blog, or follow us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/digitalurban/ the course starts September 2010.
News on how to enroll and full details can be found here.
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