eDuShi
Feb 6th, 2006 | By Sue | Category: VirtualEnvironments, WebMappingeDuShi is a 3D mapping site for the city of Shanghai, with a cool Sim City kind of look instead of using satellite imagery, and has a navigation interface simliar to other internet mapping applications. As you mouse over structures, text info popups up interactively (unfortunately I don’t read Chinese). Although not photo-realistic, it is still a neat way to virtually represent the city of Shanghai and allow users to navigate around and get information about real-world features.
Edushi is more than a map of Shanghai. There are actually maps of several Chinese cities. Instead of going to sh.edushi.com, go to http://www.edushi.com, and click on one of the city names.
For more information in English, visit the Virtual Terrain Project China page (http://www.vterrain.org/Locations/cn/index.html)
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the January 28, 2006, entry at Geography v2.0.
(http://geography2.blogspot.com/2006/01/local-meets-simcity.html)