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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.<br><br>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.<br><br>> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:16:28 +0100<br>> From: DrScofield@xyzzyxyzzy.net<br>> To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br>> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] TSB Feasibility Study: Online Virtual Worlds for Urban Regeneration Consultation<br><br>Ben Francis wrote:<br>> Dear OpenSim community,<br>> <br>> I am working on a UK Government Technology Strategy Board funded<br>> feasibility study into "using commercial gaming technology to improve<br>> the user experience in the urban re-generation consultation process".<br>> <br>> My part of the study involves investigating using Online Virtual Worlds<br>> to create an online resource that would help involve communities in the<br>> re-development of urban areas. The idea is to create virtual worlds<br>> which mirror real life cities and enable users to explore an accurate 3D<br>> map of the area under consideration. The user would also be able to<br>> create their own spatial designs from a library of 3D buildings and<br>> other geographical primitives such as trees, plants, walls, fences etc.<br>> <br>> I am interested in including OpenSimulator in my study as a candidate<br>> solution. I notice that early experiments into the importing of<br>> geospatial data have taken place at slgis.org <http://slgis.org>. Is the<br>> importing of geospatial data something that the OpenSimulator project is<br>> actively pursuing or supporting and does anyone on this list have<br>> experience of doing so?<br>> <br>> If geospatial applications or interest in integration with such<br>> technology exists within the project, I would like to ask further<br>> questions about OpenSimulator. Would it be OK to pose these questions to<br>> this list?<br>> <br>> Thanks for your time<br><br /><hr />Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! <a href='http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us' target='_new'>Try it!</a></body>
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