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3D Paris – An Interactive approach


image source: obey magazine

3D Paris is an interactive application designed for IPad and following Recce, it aims in bringing the 3D city closer to the user. The viewer can wander in the streets of Paris of 1829, learn about the evolution of the city, or enjoy an aerial view of the city from the top floor of the Eiffel tower.

In this application the city itself becomes the object of interest, creating a bridge between the broader public and urban history. Virtual reality and the interactive approaches of gaming are being applied on the actual form of the city and that makes me wonder of how long till we see interactive city planning.

In any case, watching something like this makes me anticipate for an application narrating the history of Athens, the Parthenon and the Ancient Agora. I am looking forward to chatting with the ancient philosophers instead of kinect’s (now cancelled) “Milo“…

Experience 3D Paris in your browser at:
http://paris.3ds.com/#Patrimoine

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3D Paris – An Interactive approach


image source: obey magazine

3D Paris is an interactive application designed for IPad and following Recce, it aims in bringing the 3D city closer to the user. The viewer can wander in the streets of Paris of 1829, learn about the evolution of the city, or enjoy an aerial view of the city from the top floor of the Eiffel tower.

In this application the city itself becomes the object of interest, creating a bridge between the broader public and urban history. Virtual reality and the interactive approaches of gaming are being applied on the actual form of the city and that makes me wonder of how long till we see interactive city planning.

In any case, watching something like this makes me anticipate for an application narrating the history of Athens, the Parthenon and the Ancient Agora. I am looking forward to chatting with the ancient philosophers instead of kinect’s (now cancelled) “Milo“…

Experience 3D Paris in your browser at:
http://paris.3ds.com/#Patrimoine

for more images:
Read more »

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3D Paris – An Interactive approach


image source: obey magazine

3D Paris is an interactive application designed for IPad and following Recce, it aims in bringing the 3D city closer to the user. The viewer can wander in the streets of Paris of 1829, learn about the evolution of the city, or enjoy an aerial view of the city from the top floor of the Eiffel tower.

In this application the city itself becomes the object of interest, creating a bridge between the broader public and urban history. Virtual reality and the interactive approaches of gaming are being applied on the actual form of the city and that makes me wonder of how long till we see interactive city planning.

In any case, watching something like this makes me anticipate for an application narrating the history of Athens, the Parthenon and the Ancient Agora. I am looking forward to chatting with the ancient philosophers instead of kinect’s (now cancelled) “Milo“…

Experience 3D Paris in your browser at:
http://paris.3ds.com/#Patrimoine

for more images:
Read more »

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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics / Quantitative Social Science – University of Manchester

Tweet Closing date :30/11/2012 Reference :HUM-01939 Faculty / Organisational unit :Humanities School / Directorate :School of Social Sciences Division :Social Statistics Salary : £32,901 to £55,908 Employment type :Permanent Hours per week :Full-time Location :Oxford Road We wish to recruit three Lecturers or Senior Lecturers in Social Statistics / Quantitative Social Science.  These posts are tenable […]

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Datascape – New 3D Dataviz tool from Daden

This is intriguing, a new 3D package to map and explore data – Datascape, by Daden Ltd, known perviously for their work in Second Life, provides an immersive environment in which users can explore and interact with data from almost any source. David Burden, Daden’s Managing Director said “Datascape is ground-breaking and we’re…

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The geodemographics of access and participation in Geography

Geography is not a compulsory subject of study beyond the age of 14 in English schools and this has had an impact on both absolute and relative participation rates over recent years. Geodemographic analysis reveals that pupils domiciled within more affluent and less ethnically diverse areas record the highest rates of participation and attainment in […]

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A Survey of the use of Geographic Information Systems in English Local Authority Impact Assessments.

Across the public sector, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis are increasingly ubiquitous when making decisions involving people and places. However, historically GIS has not been prevalently applied to the various types of impact assessment. As such, this paper presents findings from a survey conducted in 2011 of 100 local authorities in England to […]

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Researching the Riots

This commentary sets out an agenda for researching the riots that swept through English cities in 2011, and for exploring the broader issues raised by these events. Drawing inspiration from groundbreaking social and cultural geographies of the 1981 riots, and also from mappings and quantitative studies of the more recent disturbances, this paper sets out […]

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Installing Routino under OSX

Routino is a set of libraries that enable road based route calculations to be conducted over OpenStreetMap data. I have been using them extensively over the past six months for a project looking at CO2 emissions and the commute to school.

Although Routino was designed to run under Linux, it can also be compiled and installed under OSX (sorry no windows!).

  1. First download and unzip the latest version of Routino from here.

  2. Ensure that Xcode and the Xcode command line tools are both installed. On Xcode 4.5 the command line tools can be installed from within Xcode through Xcode >>> Preferences >>> Downloads tab >>> Click “install”.

  3. Navigate to the downloaded Routino folder using the terminal and compile the source code using a “make” command. You would need to supplement “alex” in the following commands for you own user account name.

cd /Users/alex/Desktop/routino-2.3.2/
make

The result should be a series of messages printed to the terminal that indicate Routino being compiled correctly.

  1. The next stage is to copy the compiled libraries (found in the /web/bin folder into your usr/bin folder which should appear in your system PATH (You can check if this is the case by running echo $PATH from the terminal). The -R and the fact that bin ends with a “/” mean that the contents of the folder are copied rather than the folder itself.
sudo cp -R  /Users/alex/Desktop/routino-2.3.2/web/bin/ /usr/bin/

To check that this has worked, if you enter “planetsplitter” or “router” on the terminal the input parameters of these tools should be printed.

For more information on use of the programme, see the Routino documentation here.

The only issue I have had with Routino is that occasionally I would get implausible and very long routes calculated. It turned out that this was related to an issue in the underlying OSM data where access by foot wasn’t necessarily specified on “trunk” roads. A work around for this was to specify that pedestrians could walk on these routes using the tagging rules in the specification XML files. The results of these changes can be seen in the following map.

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A Survey of the use of Geographic Information Systems in English Local Authority Impact Assessments.

Across the public sector, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis are increasingly ubiquitous when making decisions involving people and places. However, historically GIS has not been prevalently applied to the various types of impact assessment. As such, this paper presents findings from a survey conducted in 2011 of 100 local authorities in England to examine how embedded GIS, spatial analysis and visualisation practices are to the process of conducting impact assessments. The results show that despite obvious advantages of applying GIS in these processes, applications employing basic techniques are at best sporadic, and where advanced methods are implemented, these in almost all instances are conducted by external contractors, thus illustrating a significant GIS under capacity within the sampled local authorities studied.

Riddlesden, D., A.D. Singleton, and T. B. Fischer. 2012. “A Survey of the Use of Geographic Information Systems in English Local Authority Impact Assessments.” Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 14 (01): 1250006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1464333212500068.

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The geodemographics of access and participation in Geography

Geography is not a compulsory subject of study beyond the age of 14 in English schools and this has had an impact on both absolute and relative participation rates over recent years. Geodemographic analysis reveals that pupils domiciled within more affluent and less ethnically diverse areas record the highest rates of participation and attainment in GCSE Geography, and that the stratified patterns of participation have increased between 2005 and 2009. Within this period, those schools that have stopped supplying successful GCSE Geography entries by 2009 were found to have overall low aggregate attainment and to draw pupils from more deprived areas. The profile of schools visited by the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) (RGS-IBG) Ambassador Scheme was also considered to assess the extent that the schools visited are representative of pupils who are most at risk of non-participation.

Singleton, A.D. 2012. “The Geodemographics of Access and Participation in Geography.” The Geographical Journal 178 (3): 216–229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00467.x.

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Researching the Riots

This commentary sets out an agenda for researching the riots that swept through English cities in 2011, and for exploring the broader issues raised by these events. Drawing inspiration from groundbreaking social and cultural geographies of the 1981 riots, and also from mappings and quantitative studies of the more recent disturbances, this paper sets out a framework for researching the riots, and underlines the importance of doing so. It concludes that while riots are traumatic experiences for many, they can also be opportunities, which effective research can help to realise, recasting these events as catalysts for change.

Phillips, Richard, Diane Frost, and A.D. Singleton. 2012. “Researching the Riots.” The Geographical Journal. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00463.x.

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