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Every now and again work comes to your attention that makes you think ‘wow’ - Daden Ltd have imported Google Maps into Second Life and it has just eaten up most of our morning.

The movie below illustrates the highlights of their work and our exploration:

Music by Destri.

Second Life is still a hard sell to local councils or local authorities, Daden’s work with Birmingham City Council is certainly interesting and we applaud the progress so far.

As for issues of copyright with regards Google Maps/Imagery in Second Life, that raises a whole different issue between cross platform usage. We cant see Google sending a cease and desist unlike the Ordnance Survey with our Second Life work…

See Daden Ltd for more info, thanks to Mal Burns and his excellent Twitter feed for the heads up.

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I am excited to see that David Rumsey’s maps have come to life in Second Life, the extremely popular online, 3-D world. It’s such a cool idea: historical maps in a virtual world. I’ve spent hours playing with the Rumsey maps that appear in Google Earth, sliding back and forth between today’s borders [...]

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We love YouTube, it has opened up simple tutorials to the masses allowing techniques to be easily shared. One such nugget is a tutorial on ‘How to Build a City in 5 Minutes’ embedded below:
Uploaded by ‘FreeTutorials‘ it makes an interesting use of a simple height map in Bryce to quickly create [...]

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In the light of the Ordnance Survey asking us to remove our London Model from Second Life and while we wait for details on licensing we thought it was worth carrying on the work but this time with a different dataset.
Thus while Virtual London sits on a shelf due to data restrictions we [...]

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Second Life has a beta version of its viewer now available using the WindLight atmosphere rendering system.
The results are definitely a step up in the rendering quality of Second Life as the screen grab from our panoramic ’step inside’ globes hopefully illustrates. The beta viewer is well worth a download with the latest [...]

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Now we have a route from ESRI’s ArcMap into Second Life it opens up all sorts of possibilities for importing geographical data into an environment that is ripe for public participation and collaboration type outreach activities.
The movie below details various population data sets displayed per London Borough, it is still beta but we [...]

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Displaying real-time data in Second Life is intriguing as it represents a direct cross over between the real world and the virtual. It also links in well with our current work with the National Centre for E Social Science and as such we now have a new sample real-time weather map in Second [...]

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