Digital Urban
CASA, UCL
Recently met these very interesting guys down at CASA – the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. They were responsible for the Virtual London model. Just a great blog crammed with urban visual experiments, playing with mash-ups, tutorials and 3D tube maps in all dimensions and colours.
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posted by Francesca Granato
on 02 April 2008
Worth a read
Interesting blog. The post's feel up to date and intelligent. I especially like their 3D tube map. I look forward to a time when all maps are 3D, clickable and dragable, and zoomable.
posted by James Lefrere
on 02 April 2008
CASA: Centre for Advanced Spatial Awesomeness
I read this blog now and again—it's great to see all of the 3D experimentation I never find the time to do myself.
The Virtual London model is a fantastic piece of work (an example can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWckGYHXJg8 ), but it's a shame that copyright issues currently prevent it from being used for the benefit of Londoners.
posted by Ian Delaney
on 03 April 2008
interesting
Great blog.
Can't help thinking that 3D maps are a bit of a non-starter, since distant locations are foreshortened. I guess if you could spin it, like a real 3d environment, you could make sense of that, but still...