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Jul 29
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Microsofts Sphere: The Ultimate Virtual Earth Viewer?

By Microsoft Touch Sphere, Virtual Earth

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 space in the lab ready to house it…

Thanks to Kirk for sending us the heads up, take a look at Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog for more details.

Jul 29
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YouCity New York: Stunning 3D Map of Manhattan

By 3D Map, mapping, New York, YouCity


You City: Sample Map of Manhattan from digitalurban on Vimeo.

A while ago we posted about ShangHai WangCheng Net Tech Co., Ltd and their maps of cities in China created in a unique ‘sim city esk’ point of view. The company has partnered with YouCity.com to explore the western market and have just released 3 demos maps of Manhattan.

The results are stunning (see the movie above) with the final version offering multi-angle viewing and an open api promised.


You can take the samples for a spin yourself by visiting http://www.youcity.com. Such maps certainly raise the bar on what will become the norm in city mapping over the next few years.

Jul 28
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Virtual Stonehenge: A LiDAR Survey Flythrough

By LiDAR, Stonehenge


A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape from Wessex Archaeology on Vimeo.

Its not urban but is so nice that its worth making an exception to look at the results of a LiDAR survey around the area of Stonehenge.Prehistoric burial mounds (barrows), the great Cursus (a 2km Neolithic monument), the Bronze Age Avenue which links Stonehenge to the River Avon, and other henges such as Woodhenge and Durrington Walls are all clearly visible.

The movie was produced by Tom Goskar from Wessex Archaeology

To find out more technical information about the survey, visit the Stonehenge LiDAR section of the English Heritage website.

See Tom’s blog entry for more information.

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