[Opensim-dev] TSB Feasibility Study: Online Virtual Worlds for Urban Regeneration Consultation

[Ben Francis]

Dear OpenSim community,

I am working on a UK Government Technology Strategy Board funded feasibility
study into "using commercial gaming technology to improve the user
experience in the urban re-generation consultation process".

My part of the study involves investigating using Online Virtual Worlds to
create an online resource that would help involve communities in the
re-development of urban areas. The idea is to create virtual worlds which
mirror real life cities and enable users to explore an accurate 3D map of
the area under consideration. The user would also be able to create their
own spatial designs from a library of 3D buildings and other geographical
primitives such as trees, plants, walls, fences etc.

I am interested in including OpenSimulator in my study as a candidate
solution. I notice that early experiments into the importing of geospatial
data have taken place at slgis.org. Is the importing of geospatial data
something that the OpenSimulator project is actively pursuing or supporting
and does anyone on this list have experience of doing so?

If geospatial applications or interest in integration with such technology
exists within the project, I would like to ask further questions about
OpenSimulator. Would it be OK to pose these questions to this list?

Thanks for your time

Regards

Ben

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Ben Francis
http://tola.me.uk
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