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

[Mircea Filipescu]

The first thing I remembered while reading this was a project I seen a while ago which allowed generating opensim simulators based on satellite information of given areas, so cities would be built with a single click from real life places rather then by hard work and building everything manually. I couldn't yet understand how such a thing is possible to simulate in 3D off real life map data, but I think that might be of interest to your project.

All I have on this is a Youtube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJNDcurLP1w&feature=channel_page which I think you'll find it interesting. Otherwise I believe it's OK to ask further questions to this list, I'm sure many would love to hear more about this interesting project.

> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:16:28 +0100
> From: DrScofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] TSB Feasibility Study: Online Virtual Worlds for Urban Regeneration Consultation

Ben Francis wrote:
> 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 <http://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

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