The start of the animation embedded below provides a fly through of a city created using Greeble’s. It asks ‘at the end of the day where do you want to be’ with the end focusing on a suburban housing estate known as Rice Ranch:
I know where we would rather be – the city, especially with its fantastic greeble architecture.
You can create your own Greeble City using our tutorial…
Every now and again a web based service comes along that takes our breath away, Bjørn Sandvik’s Thematic Mapping Engine is one of those services.
Bjorn is a project manager at United Nations Association (UNA) of Norway who is currently on study leave to undertaking a master’s in Geography Information Science (GIS) at University of Edinburgh. His Thematic Mapping Engine enables you to visualise global statistics on Google Earth in a way that only a few years ago would of been a showstopper using high end tools such as ESRI’s ArcGlobe.
Its is quick easy with a colour scale that fits the mapping well, our movie below illustrates Global Population in 2005.
It is simple to use – go the the main page of the Thematic Engine and select a required indicator – we picked Population. You can then choose your technique of mapping – we chose Prism – and date etc. Its self explanatory with a KML provided to open in Google Earth.
For anyone interesting in mapping the Thematic Mapping Engine is well worth a look.
Every now and again a web based service comes along that takes our breath away, Bjørn Sandvik’s Thematic Mapping Engine is one of those services.
Bjorn is a project manager at United Nations Association (UNA) of Norway who is currently on study leave to undertaking a master’s in Geography Information Science (GIS) at University of Edinburgh. His Thematic Mapping Engine enables you to visualise global statistics on Google Earth in a way that only a few years ago would of been a showstopper using high end tools such as ESRI’s ArcGlobe.
Its is quick easy with a colour scale that fits the mapping well, our movie below illustrates Global Population in 2005.
It is simple to use – go the the main page of the Thematic Engine and select a required indicator – we picked Population. You can then choose your technique of mapping – we chose Prism – and date etc. Its self explanatory with a KML provided to open in Google Earth.
For anyone interesting in mapping the Thematic Mapping Engine is well worth a look.
The SimCity franchise has slipped of late with recent versions failing to recreate the sophistication of of the earlier versions – notably Sim City 2000 and Sim City 4.
The latest version is to appear on the Nintendo Wii, following a similar theme of note is the ability to fly around the city in either a helicopter or airplane, the movie embedded below provide a glimpse of the free fly feature:
For a full run down take a look at the IGN preview of SimCity Creator.