Slovenian blogger and OpenStreetMap contributor Igor Brejc who is also the author of the Kosmos rendering application has described how to turn OpenStreetMap maps into 3D. There is a set of images plus a video (link below) providing a first impression how these maps look like in 3D.
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More information:
Igor Brejc description and images on the process used. Have a look at the comments as well for additional information and other potential tools.
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You might have heard about the “OpenStreetMap” project that creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to everyone. What most users of mapping software and services don’t know – there are often license or technical restrictions how you can use data and maps available commercially or by other providers. That’s what OpenStreetMap is trying to overcome.
Particularly with mapping data from the UK, where the government agency in charge…
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If you spend a lot of time trying to find images or videos on the Internet this tools might help.
“oScope” – a visual search tool – allows you to search Flickr, eBay, YouTube and Amazon. The creators have promised to add more sites in the future. The photos, books, videos, or eBay items found are displayed with small images (can be zoomed) plus additional information. You can also watch found videos directly inside the search interface or open the original site.
The interface can be customized to your preferences from background color to…
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A drawing of a family tree taken literally in a different way – beautiful drawing – you have to see it at full scale for the details. (link below)
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If you’re a student of an university around the world Microsoft today is giving you a late Christmas present.
From today on Microsoft allows students worldwide to download developer tools including VS Professional 2008 and 2005, a copy of MS Server 2003, VirtualPC, SQL Server 2005 Dev. Edition, Expression Studio plus additional development tools free of charge.
All you have to do is to use your MS Live account (or a newly created one) to log into the site and provide the country and name of your university. The verification of your student status will then be done within about a minute via a web service ( we learned this from someone who has done it with an UK university, might take longer with others). The license key allows you to use the software for student projects and research. Teaching staff and commercial use is excluded…
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