We are making some cosmetic changes to Digital Urban, one of which is a ‘Best Of’ section. With over 800 posts its easy to lose some of the most read/commented entries so some time next week we will have the ‘Best Off’ section up and running…
Google Earth is a unique and complex repository of images, as such we thought it would be interesting to recreate the opening view of Google Earth using images tagged with the words ‘Maps, Space and Aerial’.
The result is a photo mosaic of 5000 images which was aimed at getting across the point of ‘mashups’ for a forthcoming presentation. The full size image (10,000 x 6000 pixel) image is embedded below courtesy of our free Image Cutter software:
You can also view a larger version via Flickr.
By 2030 the number of urban dwellers will have exploded to 4.8 billion people, roughly 60 percent of the projected world population, whereas only 13 percent lived in cities in 1900. In its 8 February 2008 issue, Science explores the ramifications of urban transformation. News articles offer an on-the-ground look at how cities are tackling specific problems from poverty and sanitation to traffic jams.
Reviews and Perspectives examine how cities take shape and the impacts of urbanization on the environment, human health, economic growth, and the demographics of the developing world.
Mike Batty, director of our Lab here in CASA, has a paper in and also appears as part of the related podcast segment and online video presentation that accompanies the issue.
For those interested in Cities the issue is well worth a look, see http://www.sciencemag.org/ for more info.
Posts have been sparse for the last week as we have had our heads down writing the booklet for the forthcoming Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World Conference.
Taking place next Wednesday – Feb 20th you can still register for the event taking place in the Barbican Cinema, London (its free!).
The booklet, currently running at 60 pages, covers a series of tutorials and info on the Digital Earth, Panoramas, Second Life and Neogeogrpahy as a whole. We will have 100 free copies available on the day and if we have enough left over a few to give away on the blog.
It also acts as a preview of the forthcoming Digital Urban book…
Suffice to say posts will be back and digital urban will have a new look soon as we can get time to tweak the template.
So if your into Digital Cities, Google Maps, Google Earth & Second Life, the Barbican, Cinema 2 on Wednesday 20th Feb is the place to be.