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London UndergroundVirtual London 20.07.2007 1 min read

Iconic Cities - London Thoughts

Andy CASA, UCL East

Since the arrival of Google Earth a lot of our work has been focused on the geographic and photorealistic representation of the city. With a Geographical Information System (GIS) you can easily overlay data and communicate issues to the public at large.

An example of this is our air pollution movie below -



While such views of the city undoubtedly communicate space and place a constant emphasis on aerial photographs can become slightly dry. As such our look at the 3D London Underground map has led to a new look at iconic images to communicate locational and spatial data:



The image above represents our first thoughts (click for a larger view) - its a Friday thing...

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