What Sue did the summer of 2006
So after we met some of the SketchUp guys at the geoblogger meet-up at the ESRI UC, Sue showed off her presentation that she had given earlier that day on her Virtual Morgantown project. Apparently the SketchUp guys liked the ArcScene/SketchUp project and after they got back from their summer round of conferences they posted Sue’s project on their blog today. Thanks to SketchUp for the recognition and a big thanks to Lucy, Zach, Kate, Samuel, and Ron for their help making the models. The downside is that I need to actually get the lab website up to speed since there will probably be more traffic.
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I did a similar project this summer. But since I completely made up the project by myself, volunteered with Archives of Michigan, did it alone as an internship, had no ArcGIS license and no LIDAR data, I had to use Google Earth and SketchUp. I got the Sanborn maps for Lansing, Michigan, overlaid them on Google Earth which was inaccurate because of the poor ability of GE for georeferencing. I recreated several buildings based on photographs but I did not get very far with the project. Reading the workflow for this project gives me a better idea how to do a historical reconstruction of a town. I started this school year volunteering at City of Lansing where I will be processing LIDAR data to recreate a contemporary 3D model of the city. No one in this area seems interested in this type of work like I am. I am glad to see I am not alone in the world in wanting to create reconstructions of past urban landscapes. My plan for years has been to recreate every city of human civilization in all their periods and create a comprehensive time-animated atlas of world history.
Simon, Do you have any of your work online? Links available?