This is a humble request for geowanker mappers and geocoding web artists
alike to join me to quiet our 2d cartographic minds for a minute to
engage in a little thought experiment about handheld views of 3d geodata:
Context: The realtime tweetsphere http://bit.ly/rZncR and
youtubesphere http://bit.ly/UwQ3u are alive with news of handheld AR,
[agumented reality] capabilities & apps, and services. Besides layar and
wikitude on android, there are already a number cool hacks for
jailbroken iPhones, and veiled confirmations from apple that the next
rev. of the iphone os dev release for the 3gs will support AR app
integration of gps, compass, and graphic overlay of video cam views.
The viewfinder is becoming a new AR 3d web browser.
AR is here, if not today, tomorrow, but i suspect our geosphere is not
ready.
questions for fellow geowankers:
1. What kind of geodata and locative media will be most useful or fun to
see geopositioned in 3d in our handheld viewfinders.
e.g. floating labels of things, animated directions, emergency alerts,
news and ads to filter, cartoon games, visible clouds of wifi signal
strength, visible sensor net readings of air quality.. visible entry
into another colored polygon
of cartographic meaning, etc.
2. How will we search, view, create, and serve open 3d AR geodata?
3. What is the prospective FOSS stack for 3dAR geoservices?
e.g. starting at the top with a 3D firefox or open layers equivelant
client down to a cloudwide RESTful deep geocoded web of linked 3D geodata?
Just curious, what people are thinking these days . . .
Mike
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