VirtualEnvironments

May 15, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

Historic Reconstruction with SketchUp

Matt from GIS for Archaeology and CRM posted a great example of how SketchUp has been used to support historic research to recreate buildings based on historic records and photographs. […]
May 1, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

Traveling Exhibit of EarthWorks virtual reconstructions

Continuing my theme today of virtual reconstructions of cultural and archaeological resources, I just saw a press release on ScienceDaily that EarthWorks, a ten-year-old project to virtually reconstruct Native American […]
May 1, 2006general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments

Preserving China’s past in digital form

3PointD linked to this article from CRIEnglish.com about several projects under way to digitially recreate a number of China’s endangered or destroyed cultural resources. Among the projects are stuctures at […]
April 22, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

3D Nature joins the KML Race

I really need to do a general post on 3D Nature’s offerings. We have been playing with World Construction Set and Visual Nature Studio for a few years now, but […]
April 14, 2006general, GIS_Software, VirtualEnvironments

Fred Limp on 3-D

GeoWorld’s April 2006 issue features the first of 3 articles about 3D visualization and the geospatial industry. By Fred Limp, of the University of Arkansas’s Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, […]
March 28, 2006Events, general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), VirtualEnvironments

See a total solar eclipse “live” on your computer

Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be a total or near-total solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Europe, Africa, and South America (see this guide from MSNBC). For the […]
March 9, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

Arc Explorer Demo Video

James over at Spatialy Adjusted pointed out that ESRI have published a demo movie of Arc Explorer in action. The file is in Windows Media Format and runs at ever […]
March 7, 2006Navigation, VirtualEnvironments

Tele Atlas and Intermap join forces for the greater driving good!

I don’t know about you, but when I’m sent away on assignment to some exotic and interesting city to which I’ve never been before, the thing that really gets my […]
February 28, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

MS Street-Side Preview Live

Microsoft has just released thier Street-Side product in preview mode. It’s a pretty nifty implementation of AJAX technology and mapping. You can type in an address and get a split […]
February 23, 2006VirtualEnvironments

VisitorVille

As a prelude to our upcoming podcast episode on cybergeography, check out VisitorVille, a web analytics software application that “does not represent website visitors simply as numbers or graphs, but […]