The 3D-GIS in the Cloud App for iPad and Smartphones allows city data to be navigated in 3D. Mixing augmented reality and 3D visualisations the App extends the reach of GIS beyond the office and allows organisations to make collaborative and accurate business decisions in both field and office environments.

The system supports existing GIS spatial data from various files (e.g. Shapefile, GDB, Multipatch, GeoTiff, ECW, GML, SDF, WMF, WFS) and database sources (e.g. ArcSDE, SQL Server, Oracle). Each data source is rendered and handled as an independent layer within the 3D model. The movie below provides a look at the app in action:

Regular readers will know that we have a bit of a ‘thing’ for the interiors of churches/chapels, timelapse imagery and high dynamic range photography, as such the movie below is one of our favourites:

The Chapel is a short film by lookycreative.com paying tribute to an exceptional protestant temple in Zeliszów, Poland, designed by Karl Langhans and built in 1796-1797. The variety of techniques behind the movie is notable, and thankfully the makers have made a ‘Making of’ movie, below:

The tutorials mentioned in the clip can be found at: lookycreative.com/timelapse-compendium

Below is a 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.