London, Reloaded: UK Spacial Analyst imports and rezzes city data in real time

The mirror world continues to take shape in Second Life.  Last week we saw it with Zora Spoonhammer's 3D globe with dynamic real world weather, this week it's this video, depicting data from the urban landscape of London being uploaded into SL, then taking on 3D form in a truly mesmerizing, Matrix-worthy way. 

The project is from Dr. Andrew Hudson-Smith, an academic with the Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis at University College London, and he explains its development on his blog:

"[W]e have managed to import our Virtual London model of 3 million plus buildings into a scrolling map. The map is built from prims that 'rez' [out] of a central point to build accurate models based on Ordnance Survey MasterMap with height data supplied by InfoTerra."

I'm trying to get in touch with the good professor now, to learn more; meantime, visit his blog, Digital Urban.

Comments

[Keystone Bouchard]

As an interesting follow-up, the Ordnance Survey requested that they remove this project from Second Life. What a shame! Hopefully they will be able to resolve this soon.

http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/11/virtual-london-removed-from-second-life.html

[landscape designers phoenix]

Did it actually GET removed, or did they just request it and it never happened? What was the resolution, I wanna know, lol! Don't really play Second Life myself, so I can't just check...