We are about to hit the road for a few days and our USB modem seems to of gone walkies – in short that means the possibility of no Internet access (!) and thus a lack of blog posts.
Apologies for this, we don’t often have any ‘down time’ on digital urban, we will be back soon 🙂
Andy
On Monday 27th April the Building Centre in London is hosting a half day seminar on Digital Cities.
Virtual city maps and 3D models are cost-effective resources for designers and planners made possible by the advances in digital mapping technology. London probably has more than a dozen virtual models in development in commercial, academic, government and freeware environments and there are many others throughout the UK.
This intensive half-day seminar explores how designers and planners can use the data and software resources effectively, who should own the models and maps and the data within them and how this impacts on the democratic processes such as planning and consultation.
Programme
2.00pm Registration & coffee
2.30pm Keynote Presentation: Digital Cities: Data and Democracy
Sir Terry Farrell, Principal, Terry Farrell & Partners
2.55pm New Developments in Digital Resources
Dr. Andy Hudson Smith, Research Manager, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL
3.20pm Virtual Earth Applications for enabling planning decisions
James Bamford, Business Development Director, Microsoft Virtual Earth
Justin Saunders, Technical Director, eMapSite
3.45pm Case study: Applied 3D Mapping
Didier Madoc Jones, Managing Director, GMJ Design
4.05pm Tea Break
4.20pm Mapping People and Places
Professor Alan Brimicombe, Head, Centre for Geo-Information Studies, UEL
4.45pm Recent geospatial mapping developments
Ed Parsons of Google London
5.05pm Case study: Digital Approaches to Community Engagement
Giles Lane, Director, Proboscis
5.30pm Q&A
6.00pm Close
The cost is £95 + VAT but mention digital urban and your get 20% off…
We will be talking about our research using Crysis, SketchUp, Google Earth and Second Life.
Bookings can be made at www.buildingcentre.co.uk
The Building Centre, Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
Creating ‘Planets’ from panoramic imagery is one of the easiest yet perhaps most underused ways to portray 360×180 degree imagery. The music video above for artist called ‘caelum’ (Released on Aroundtherecords, JP) .myspace.com/caelumbridgearoundtherecords.com uses the technique combined with After Effects.
Produced by takcom™ it is really nice to see ‘Planets’ used is such a way. Take a look at the tutorial on Flickr for details on how to create your own Planets…
Procedural with their impressive cityengine is certainly a company to watch, we have had a chance to use their demo and the ability to import GIS layers, combined with the rapid creation of cities is certainly impressive. As such their work on New York City 2259 is well worth a look.
NYC 2259 by is the extrapolation of New York city 250 years into the future, inspired by the great 1998 motion picture The Fifth Element.
Today’s street network of NY, imported from openstreetmap.org, has been extended to a bigger area, available due to the lower water levels in the future.
The example includes grammar rules to create futuristic skyscrapers in two levels of detail as well as flying cars – press play below:
Take a look at the NYC 2259 page for full details…