From the BBC’s ‘The History of Now: The Story of the Noughties‘.
Because you just can’t squeeze enough visualisation and maps into the working day, I decided to launch a special Ito Labs Flickr stream – http://www.flickr.com/photos/itolabs/
Its a home for some of the wonderful work we do that doesn’t always see the light of day. We have a little baby right now, who I would like to introduce:
Tron Renderer
Although, I have a feeling you will be seeing more of this one as she matures.
What better to do on a wet and wild Saturday than play around with some KML and the Google Earth plugin?
I unearthed some old work I did and it struck me how ahead of the times it was, using 3D models to show a community what planning applications in their area looked like. It does make me wonder why it isn’t a requirement to publish all large planning applications like this so that communities can visualise and discuss the impact of planning applications.
This is the first time I’ve had a play with the GEarth plugin and I must say it was a doddle to throw together this simple viewer:
The large tower block was the planning application in question, does anybody know if it went ahead?
Christopher OsborneFounder of #Geomob - London Geo Mobile Developers Meetup
Passionate about neogeography and the future of the geoweb as a platform. "Not social media expert, have real job".