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Written by Vector1Media Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00

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Volume 3 / Issue 45/ November 17, 2009
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PERSPECTIVES

What happened to the metaverse?

"Just a few years ago there was a flurry of activity to create virtual digital worlds such as Linden Labs’ Second Life for interaction in spaces some call the metaverse. At that point in time, the prediction was that these worlds would far surpass Facebook and MySpace as the places that we’d want to gather and interact. The thinking was that the almost real-life interpersonal connections in these virtual worlds would cause us to congregate. The flurry of early adoption hasn’t sustained, and if anything we’re far less virtual but more constantly connected today."
-- Matt Ball, editor Americas/Asia Pacific for V1 Magazine
TOP STORIES
FEATURES

Beyond Visualisation: Intelligent City
Planning and Management

3D visualisation models have a variety of applications in geography and urban studies, including site location analysis, emergency facilities planning, design review and marketing. A pressing problem facing many of these models is their general inability to engage the vast majority of their users and the people whose lives they influence in a meaningful and intuitive fashion.

 

Quantifying and Analyzing Farm Sustainability

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have released the Illinois Farm Sustainability Calculator (IFSC), an open-source, spreadsheet-based model capable of quantifying and analyzing various measures of environmental sustainability for any farm in the state of Illinois.

 
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TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK
Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week
  1. Energy Agencies - local and regional energy agencies (LEAs) support the introduction of good energy management practices, advocate the concept of sustainability, provide information and guidance, and offer a number of other local services based on specific local energy needs.
  2. Hypermedia Berlin - mapping time, coring urban space
  3. S4 - Spatial simulation for the social sciences
  4. ESRI Podcast - GIS and Remote Sensing in Africa
  5. Paper - Local consequences of applying international norms: differences in the application of forest certification in Northern Sweden, Northern Finland, and Northwest Russia
Matt's Top Five Links of the Week
  1. MUSIC -- The MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative to train students on communicating the complex issues of environmental decision making.
  2. GEOCOPTER -- An unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that is equipped to do 3D mapping.
  3. earthzine -- Fostering earth observation and global awareness
  4. International Institute of Sustainable Development
  5. Sustainable-Mobility.org -- A resource center for zero emission mobility.
Reader´s Links of the Week

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  1. Exploring Local - A blog by Mike Dobson on local search and all things geospatial

GIT4Infrastructure
COLUMN
Digital Cities, SDI and the GeoWeb
ron_lake_thumbWhen a domain is relatively new, the terminology is often imprecise, and many different words many be coined and used by different organizations and individuals with none of them realizing that they are talking about essentially the same thing. This is substantially true for the use of Digital City and SDI as applied to urban environments.
REVIEW
Rethinking Maps
thumb-rethinking_maps75Today the discussion surrounding maps and cartography is growing. The Internet is allowing more people in different places to experience map use digitally through a wide variety of devices. This use is creating questions about maps, mapping and cartography. Editors Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins have gathered togather a collection of contributors, each writing about the changing nature of maps, cartography and their use. The book 'Rethinking Maps - New frontiers in cartographic theory' is not only about mapping today, it describes where mapping might be in the future and provides insightful considerations for thinking about the many changes happening in the pursuit of cartography.
EVENT COVERAGE

HP - From Print to Communication

hp75_thumbThe HP - Press Event 2009 was recently held in Barcelona, Spain. The two-day event included a tour of the Institute of Advanced Architecture (Iaac) in the center of the city accompanied by formal presentations from members of the HP Research Print facilities in nearby San Cugat together with a tour and presentations at those facilities. The event highlighted HP's move from being a print company to become a design communication company.
INTERVIEW
Open Land Data Ensures Transparency

Bruce JoffeThe non-profit California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) sued the county of Santa Clara, California in 2006 over the fees they charge for their GIS parcel basemap data. The long battle ended a few months ago, with the court ruling that the county has to end their high fees for data, and pay attorney fees of $500K. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Bruce Joffe, of GIS Consultants in Oakland, Calif., a key advisor to the Coalition.
HEADLINE NEWS
CALENDAR

National GIS Conference in Denmark, Nov. 18-20, Kortdage, Denmark

Geospatial Data Cyber Infrastructure and Real-time Services, Nov. 25 -27, Hyderabad, India

Infrastructure Investment World, Nov 30-Dec 3, London, UK

The IET Seminar on Earth Observation Satellites, Nov 30, London, UK

Autodesk University, Dec. 1-3, Las Vegas

Africa - AMESD Forum, Dec. 1, Kinshasa, Republic of Congo

UK Smart Utility Summit, Dec. 8-10, London, UK

Map India, Jan. 19-21, Gurgaon, India

Second International Conference on Management of Natural Resources, Sus Dev and Ecology, Dec. 15-17, West Cape, South Africa
TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
VECTOR ONE SPATIAL SUSTAIN
    1. Spatial Data Quality: OpenStreetMap
    2. Digital Cities and Spatial Data Infrastrastructure
    3. The Paradox of GIS Simplicity
    4. European 3D Simulation and Visualisation
    5. Mapping Mathematical Topolgy from Perelman
        1. The National Map Viewer 2.0 - Beta is Live
        2. NSF Funds Geographically-Integrated History
        3. Another Geospatial Integrator Goes to VCs
        4. Vision California Begins Statewide Growth Plan
        5. Remote Sensing as Machine

          Map India Conference
          BOOKSTORE

          Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842 (1997)

          By Melville C. Branch

          This book presents 40 map plans of cities in Europe, Russia, the United States, and Asia--all published in the 19th century by England's Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and all commissioned and drawn within a period of 13 years.

          Regional and Urban GIS: A Decision Support Approach (2009)

          By Timothy L. Nyerges and Piotr Jankowski

          This reference offers new possibilities and discusses the most important aspects of computer-aided land-use planning. Topics covered include urban modeling, simulation and scenario construction, collaborative planning, and visualization.
          By Richard Brail and Richard Klosterman
          This book will give you an understanding of the Open Source GIS landscape, along with a detailed look at the major desktop applications, including GRASS, Quantum GIS, uDig, spatial databases, GMT, and other command line tools.

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