Urban Line Rider - Part 3
Another in a series of posts on Line Rider. For those who need a recap, Line Rider is a joyous Flash based application whereby you simply draw a line which creates a path for a man on a sledge to…
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Handmade Cartography
Picked this one up via Londonist's Contribute section - a link to a Flickr pool on Hand made Cartography . With over 65…
Remote Assesment - Digital (Cardboard) Geography
The Year 7 class at Court Fields School, Taunton, and St Ursula’s School in Greenwich have used their respective blogs…
Frank Lloyd Wright in Google Earth
Ok so its not as impressive as the Frank Lloyd Wright model in the Half Life 2 Engine ( see our Movie ) but its still…
Understanding GIS and Agent Based Modelling
Understanding Agent Based Modelling and GIS is easier to say than do. What do you do when you have to decide the…
BBC London Virtual London Coverage
BBC London broadcast a piece on Virtual London last night, you can view it up until lunchtime (when its replaced with…
Hidden Faces in the Earth - Google Earth
Ok so its not urban and its not research but when your trying to write a paper sometimes you get distracted and find…
Twitter Maps - A Unique View of London
As we mentioned in a our previous posts on the real time visualisation of Twitters - Twitter is intriguing, part social…
Cities and Complexity - Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models and Fractals
As urban planning moves from a centralized, top-down approach to a decentralized, bottom-up perspective, our conception…
Visual City - The Dreaming Wall
I am writing a book chapter at the moment on the 'Visual City' and got thinking about our previous post on Urban…
Image Cutter - Panorama Viewer
Neil Creek has used our labs ( CASA ) Image Cutter software to view a stunning panorama online, as the live example…
Urban Twitter(s)
Twitter is intriguing, part social network, part text message, part location aware it almost redefines communication in…
Little Big Planet - Cardboard City Rendering
Involving local communities in making decisions about their local space often involves the creation of a group built…