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Tweet City: Building Heights by Number of Tweets Movie (London)

Andy — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:11:01 +0000

What if London’s buildings grew according to the amount of data they generate? Stephan Hügel (@urschrei) and Flora Roumpani (@en_topia) two of our PhD students from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, have been working on a system to read in twitter data to CityEngine and link the geo locations to building outlines.

Twitter Data linked to Building Footprints

The video below is the first step in an approach to visualising an urban landscape using the objects that already exist in it; instead of abstract swirling points, bars, and artefacts hovering in the sky, the buildings themselves become the medium by which the data generated in and around them are made visible:

For more info head over to http://en-topia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/tweetcity-re-populating-london.html and to download source code: http://urschrei.github.io/CityEngine-…

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Yell Releases Online 3D maps of Birmingham, Leeds, London and Manchester

Andy — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:15:00 +0000

Yell has just introduced new 3D maps of Birmingham, Leeds, London and Manchester, here in the UK. Currently in Beta the service is actually rather impressive, allowing the 3D view to be dragged, titled and merged with more standard street level panoramas.

Screenshot of ‘CASA Towers’ at University College London, out of which digital urban operates.

The ability to view and navigate a photomapped 3D model of London within a web page would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. The viewer is flash based and while the resolution of the models is unstandable low, we are impressed that Yell are first to market with such an offering. The movie below provides more of an insight:

Yell’s Awesome 3D Maps from Launch Group on Vimeo.

Accordingly to Yell’s press release – more regions will get the 3D treatment as the concept rolls out around the country.

You can take a look yourself at http://www.yell.com/maps