PERSPECTIVES
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A lot has been written about digital cartography over the years. Most of it relates to the advantages that digital cartography provides as compared to non-digital mapping including improved collaboration, less redundancy, greater efficiency in production, etc. As mobility technologies develop, the need for ‘going digital’ increases. This is becoming the case as we begin to see tablets and other portable devices begin to outsell laptops and desktops.
- Jeff Thurston, editor Europe, Middle East and Africa
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FEATURES
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TOP 5 LINKS OF THE WEEK
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Reader's Links (submit links to
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- INSPIRE - Core Location Vocabularies in Europe for Cross-Border Interoperability
- 3e - offshore and sea assessments
- Disaster Apps - from the Disaster Information Management Research Center
- Old Maps - browse historic maps of your location
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COLUMN
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Vast Sensors, Big Data: Big Opportunities
 Every ten years or so, we achieve a technological breakthrough that drives innovation for the next decade. We are coming out of the age of emergence of the Internet, which has seen this enabling technology move from novel to ubiquitous. By 2010, cell phones and smart phones were on the path to becoming standard, with nearly always-connected Internet capabilities. Suddenly, we have the wealth of information at our fingertips, from maps to phone books, from web browsers to media players. And we’re not only consuming information with our smart devices, we’re generating information at amazing rates.
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INTERVIEWS
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Procedural Modeling for 3D - GIS City Modeling
 The use of 3D in urban planning, digital cities and 3D city model development is growing rapidly. Planners are interested to connect databases with city information to these 3D visualizations. Esri has been developing the CityEngine software that provides a 3D visualization connection to these databases. 3D Visualization World editor Jeff Thurston recently interviewed Gert van Maren, 3D Product Manager at Esri R&D Center in Zürich, Switzerland to learn more about these developments and how procedural modeling is being used for 3D city planning and simulation. |
TOP 5 BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
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BOOK REVIEW
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Integrated Design of Sustainable Buildings
 Sustainable design aims to improve building efficiency. It includes both individual buildings and neighbourhoods. Urban planning, architecture and spatial design are key aspects of sustainable design and energy plays a major role. This book looks into United Kingdom and international experiences, building discussion upon case study examples taking through planning, construction, operations and maintenance phases of sustainable design. Environmental, social and economic considerations are included in the discussion and presentations. |
EVENT COVERAGE
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imagina 2012 Monaco: 3D Visualization, Architecture & Urbanism
 imagina 2012 - The European 3D Simulation and Virtual Technology Event was held in Monaco February 7-9, 2012. This annual event brings together pioneering indivudals and organisations developing a wide range of 3D related products in the areas of design, processing, diagnostics, decision making, consultation, demonstration and communication. Architecture, urbanism and landscape design are key roles in the conference, and several workshops in a 'Industry and Virtual Technologies' forum were held. This year, 3D & Augmentaiton Reality for Mobility was also a popular theme.
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TOP STORIES
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HEADLINES
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Crowdsourcing Maps Africa's Technology Hot-spots
NASA Satellite Imagery Shows 40 Years of Growth in Las Vegas Valley
Remote-sensor Bear Trap Earns Patent for East Missoula Entrepreneur
CSR Demonstrates Indoor Navigation Accuracy
Integrated Dynamic Mapping Brings Climate Change Impacts Into Focus |
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EVENTS
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ASPRS Annual Meeting, March 19-23, Sacramento, Calif.
Smart Cities 2012, March 20-21, Washington, D.C.
Planet Under Pressure, March 26-29, London, UK
Where Conference, April 2-4, San Francisco, Calif.
SPAR International, April 15-18, Houston, Texas
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Cartography: Thematic Map Design (2010)
By Borden Dent, Jeff Torguson, Thomas Hodler
This textbook introduces students to different types of map projections, map design, and map production.
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By Anthony Grafton, Daniel Rosenberg
This is a heavily illustrated and comprehensive history of time maps, from tables and charts to cartographic illustration to the linear form we now associate with the word `timeline.
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Environmental Monitoring with Arduino (2012)
By Emily Gerts, Patrick Di Justo
After the devastating tsunami in 2011, DYIers in Japan built their own devices to detect radiation levels, then posted their finding on the Internet. Thousands of people worldwide are tracking environmental conditions with monitoring devices they’ve built themselves, and you can do it too!
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
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