Smart Cities, Data, Modelling and Visualisation from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
UCLive is an Augmented Reality Map of UCL developed by students on the Masters in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation at CASA. Featuring live data, the augmented reality android app works by simply pointing your mobile device at any of the UCL maps across campus. Running in Unity and mixing a number of GIS and…
Sung-Hyun Jang, one of my Ph.D. students here at CASA, has launched an Android app called AR Navigation System for Pedestrians. The app is a part of his Ph.D. studies, and is an attempt at visualising geographic information via an augmented reality interface. Specifically, the app provides navigation information via…
QRator is a collaborative project between the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and UCL Museums and Collections, to develop new kinds of content, co-curated by the public, museum curators, and academic researchers, to enhance museum interpretation, community engagement and establish new connections…
Tales of Things is all about memories, the stories we attach to objects as we move through life. As such we are very pleased to announce our latest partnership with Oxfam for their Curiosity Shop in Selfridges, London. The Curiosity Shop is open until 10th of April on the lower…
Walking Through Time is a research project developing iPhone and Android apps that architectural historians, conservationists and tourists to swap the Google base map for a historical map – i.e., allowing a user to ‘Walk Through Time’. The movie clip below provides a neat guide to the concept: In short,…
Yesterday we posted our Live London Weather ‘semi app’ for mobile devices. This got us thinking that there must be an easy way to convert a ready to go html/javascript page into an fully functional app that can take advantage of the full phone features such as GPS etc. It…
Combine GIS with mobile devices equipped with a digital compass and GPS and what do you get? Datascapes that can be mapped and layered on top of any object in the city, the potential for moving GIS and locational based services direct into the field is to be honest huge…
Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo. We have always been perplexed by companies building 3D cities for mobile devices as by nature of the device you are already in the city when using it and thus can just use your ‘eyes’ to look around. The same goes for maps, maps in…
Android the uniquely named new open source operating system for mobile phones is intriguing. We like the open source nature and the tie in with Google allows easy use of their maps application along with the ability to view linked apps such as ‘Street View’. In the video below Sergey…
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