Birmingham Mash-Up: UK City Displayed As Scale Second Life Model With Google Earth API
After a long absence spent hosting the NPIRL Garden, Bettina Tizzy is back to blogging, and she has a marvelous find: created by Daden Limited for the Birmingham City Council, it's a scale recreation of the British city in Second Life using a Google Earth API, with geo-coded news tags that look like red pushpins. As with many of Daden's inventions (as blogged here and here), the practical applications aren't immediately obvious, but the ROA (for Return on Awesome, as Jerry Paffendorf calls it) remains high. Read Bettina's take here.
"Practical applications?" Look at the scale of those avatars....good God, man! Get your Godzilla avatar, and I'll grab my Smog-Monster!
Smack-down in Birmingham! Now we only need Tokyo with breakable buildings and a Blue Oyster Cult soundtrack...
Posted by: Ignatius Onomatopoeia | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 04:49 AM
Umm, the SLURL please?
Posted by: rikomatic | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 01:52 PM
I'm not sure, check with Bettina.
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 01:56 PM