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• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Processing: A 3D City in One Minute   15 hours, 6 minutes ago
  

  We have featured the students work as part of the The Master of Advanced Studies in CAAD at ETH in Zurich quite a lot recently and we are quite fastidious as to what goes on the blog. It goes to show the quality of the output.The following example by

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Paper: Mapping for the Masses Accessing Web 2.0 Through Crowdsourcing   1 day, 18 hours ago
  

  Continuing the publication online via Issuu of our papers we include our recent paper written with Andrew Crooks, Michael Batty, and Richard Milton from CASA entitled “Mapping for the Masses Accessing Web 2.0 Through Crowdsourcing” as published in Social Science Computer Review.”The authors describe how we are harnessing the power of web 2.0 technologies to

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Panoramic Globes: Rapid HD Visualisation of Place and Space   3 days, 10 hours ago
  

  Old school readers will be familiar with the movie below, but with over 1400 posts some of our favourite movies have got lost and the following is one of them:Panoramic London Churches – HD from digitalurban on Vimeo.Amazingly easy to make it lead on to the following Worlds within Worlds clip:Worlds within Worlds: Using Panoramas

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Google Earth – Creating a Zoom Movie   3 days, 13 hours ago
  

  A quick post as few years ago we wrote a tutorial on creating a ‘zoom’ movie from Google Earth, it involved all sort of issues with paths and local caches and reversing frames. Nowadays its simply a case of ‘right clicking’ in Google Earth and dragging the mouse:Google Earth Zoom from digitalurban on Vimeo.Google Earth

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Miniature Tokyo City Timelapse   3 days, 16 hours ago
  

  The movie below combines timelapse techniques with tilt/shift and a focus on the city of Tokyo – we like it a lot:

  We must get out and do a London version…

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: GIS and Augmented Reality in 2015   3 days, 17 hours ago
  

  The last 12 months has seen a turning point in terms of bringing geographically aware augmented reality to mobile devices. Significant developments in locational technology such as the inclusion of a built-in digital compass, GPS (Global Positioning System) and accelerometers into mobile phones have allowed not only location but also heading, and pitch to

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: The Attractive City Generator   5 days, 5 hours ago
  

  The ‘Attractive City Generator’ is an an interactive installation by Sofia Georgakopoulou, Edyta Augustynowicz and Setafnie Sixt. It was created as part of the The Master of Advanced Studies in CAAD at ETH in Zurich. The students task was to explore urban design methodologies with the use of parametric programs based

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Tech/Geo Buzz Words Early 2010 – Rising and Falling Terms and Phrases   5 days, 11 hours ago
  

  At the moment we are mid-writing with various, papers, technical reports and book chapters all seemingly with the deadline of next week. As such and while looking back through previous papers and grants we have identified the 10 phases and buzz words that are either on the rise or on their way down.Buzz Words

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Noticings : The Game of Noticing the World Around You   5 days, 16 hours ago
  

  This is a nice concept – taking photos of things you ‘notice’ and uploading them to flickr with the tag ‘noticings’ and a geolocation. Noticings are interesting things that you stumble across when out and about.In short, Noticings is basically a game about learning to look at the world around you, as their

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Radio 5 Live – Pod and Blogs on the Urban Tweet-o-Meter   6 days, 17 hours ago
  

  Pods and Blogs is Radio 5 live’s programme dedicated to covering the news as seen by bloggers, podcasters and the citizen media. It is broadcast on Tuesdays at 0300 in Up All Night. Today’s episode included an interview about our Urban Tweet-o-Meter by Steven Gray, here at CASA. If you dont have access to Radio