A Dashing Blade
Takes horses to water but can't make donkeys drink
Was browsing some blogs over a boring luinchtime and came up with this one . . .
"Digitally Distributed Environments, is the blog of Dr Andy Hudson-Smith. He works at UCL in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis building 3-D images and finding ways to visualise them on maps.
The blog contains highlights from his centre’s research, including some add-ons for Google Earth that show famous landmarks in 3-D. But there’s more, much more than that. Panoramas, 3-D anaglyphs, movies of what would go first if London were to flood. In another post, an attempt is being made to map the underground in three dimensions. Because of security, they’ve not been able to obtain all the depth data required. So, showing that high-tech ideas are often underpinned by low-tech solutions, readers are invited to ‘count the steps down and email them in’.
Ancient maps of London have also been overlaid, allowing interesting comparisons between modern and old street patterns. And in the latest post, you can even download a long-demolished landmark, the Skylon, for display in Google Earth."
http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/
"Digitally Distributed Environments, is the blog of Dr Andy Hudson-Smith. He works at UCL in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis building 3-D images and finding ways to visualise them on maps.
The blog contains highlights from his centre’s research, including some add-ons for Google Earth that show famous landmarks in 3-D. But there’s more, much more than that. Panoramas, 3-D anaglyphs, movies of what would go first if London were to flood. In another post, an attempt is being made to map the underground in three dimensions. Because of security, they’ve not been able to obtain all the depth data required. So, showing that high-tech ideas are often underpinned by low-tech solutions, readers are invited to ‘count the steps down and email them in’.
Ancient maps of London have also been overlaid, allowing interesting comparisons between modern and old street patterns. And in the latest post, you can even download a long-demolished landmark, the Skylon, for display in Google Earth."
http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/
