Here below is an interesting conference for Aussie friends working on new kinds of 3D maps (Stephen White?)
By the way Earthmine.com in Berkeley, who are building very precise 3D city models have opened up their platform of models of some West Coast US cities free to developers and hackers. Their databases are not just boxes with photo textures, rather are collections of true point clouds with 20cm/pixel 3D location accuracy. -Mike -------------- call for entries DATA CITIES MODELLING MOVIES @ METROPOLIS CONGRESS 2008 SYDNEY 22-25 OCTOBER 2008 http://www.dcityresearch.net/page/call-for-entries/ Research leaders from all disciplines relevant to the data modelling revolution in planning, designing and managing cities are invited to present their latest achievements to senior government delegates from more than 100 cities attending the Metropolis `Connecting Cities' Congress in Sydney 22-25 October 2008. d_city is working with the Metropolis to showcase well-researched concepts and discoveries which can inform government planners, administrators and politicians about more eco-intelligent ways to plan, design and manage cities. Selected entries will be exhibited at the Congress and published via the d_city website. Movies should demonstrate innovative approaches to the representation and/or modelling of dynamic data via graphic interfaces, and be preferably less than five minutes and no more than 20 minutes in length. Submissions will be selected by a Panel of Curators and confirmed by a Review Panel. Selected movies will be professionally edited for exhibition to incorporate titles, introductions and end credits. As well as being presented to delegates attending Metropolis in Sydney, selected movies also will be promoted and distributed online to highlight the launch of the d_city global online research network (dcityresearch.net). warm regards, Melinda _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
