Comments on: Virtual Earth – 3D Cities Update https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/07/09/virtual-earth-3d-cities-update-2/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Thu, 20 May 2010 15:27:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: viagra online https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/07/09/virtual-earth-3d-cities-update-2/#comment-1580 Thu, 20 May 2010 15:27:25 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2029#comment-1580 I kind of agree with steve. Who makes these videos? is it the good people at digitalurban or are they release by microsoft, google etc? They’re just a bit long and boring, and the compression means they don’t look as crisp as they might do. And as steve says, you just want to go down to street level, and see what it looks like at that level – from on high it’s pretty, but pretty useless

]]> By: Andy https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/07/09/virtual-earth-3d-cities-update-2/#comment-1579 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:45:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2029#comment-1579 No worries – i made the Dresden movie with your comments in mind 🙂

Thanks for reading the blog btw..

Andy

]]> By: asolitarywave https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/07/09/virtual-earth-3d-cities-update-2/#comment-1578 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:09:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2029#comment-1578 Hey. Don’t mean to be too critical – after alll, I do watch them all! ;-). But I prefer the dresden movie, which shows you how good (or not) the model is close to…

]]> By: Andy https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/07/09/virtual-earth-3d-cities-update-2/#comment-1577 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:09:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2029#comment-1577 The movies are created in real-time to provide a quick overview of the various models. We create them in-house before writing the post.

They are currently all air based views as the technology of Virtual Earth is not yet applicable for street based capture.

For street models you need a ‘game engine’ and thus our Oblivion movies.

In general they are aimed at providing a general overview of the model and in the case of both Virtual and Google Earth this is generally ‘air’ based.

The length is generally kept to 1.30 or so – but we have made a note on the ‘boring’ comment.

🙂

Andy

]]> By: asolitarywave https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/07/09/virtual-earth-3d-cities-update-2/#comment-1576 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:07:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2029#comment-1576 Actually, having just been and checked, it’s not that bad at street level – takes a while to cache though

]]> By: asolitarywave https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/07/09/virtual-earth-3d-cities-update-2/#comment-1575 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:50:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2029#comment-1575 I kind of agree with steve. Who makes these videos? is it the good people at digitalurban or are they release by microsoft, google etc? They’re just a bit long and boring, and the compression means they don’t look as crisp as they might do. And as steve says, you just want to go down to street level, and see what it looks like at that level – from on high it’s pretty, but pretty useless

]]> By: steve https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/07/09/virtual-earth-3d-cities-update-2/#comment-1574 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:10:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2029#comment-1574 I’m so tired of these swoopy-swoopy demos. Every virtual city is swoopy motion-sickness over a whole bunch of anonymous rooftops.

Every virtual city falls apart into mucky rubbish when you go to street level. I am only interested in street level. Swoopy is useless.

I don’t want to know what my neighbour’s rooftop air conditioning unit looks like.

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