Over the past week, as we have been working with developers who developed projects, we have learned of the great accomplishments with such talented people and their tools.
Today we completed the first draft of the project Web pages. They are easily accessible from this project directory page.
In the coming week we will update the pages in order to capture all the achievements.
Inglobe Technologies, provider of ARmedia tools, has published a blog post about the 3D Geospatial Geneva Showcase and their participation.
The project submitted by Inglobe Technologies will focus on adding digital "living" elements to the Hotel de Ville of Geneve, a historical monument in the heart of the old city. This will demonstrate the latest ARMedia 3D SDK.
We've worked with providers of AR authoring platforms to get the word out about the 3D Geospatial Geneva Showcase. This week we are featured on Metaio's Augmented Blog.
We are only 10 days away from our deadline for project submissions. If you have a community of people you think should know about this showcase, please don't hesitate to share!
Since we presented about the showcase to the CityGML Standard Working Group, we’ve divided the 2.4GB data archive provided to us by the SITG and prepared individual archives for each domain. These are now hosted on the Showcase portal. After agreeing to the terms of use, each developer must download and examine the files locally and separately.
Determining which data set to use and how to merge (mash up) data sets is time consuming and requires analytical skills that most application developers do not have. The Showcase offers an opportunity to explore different strategies to overcome this obstacle. We have been discussing the options with CityGML SWG co-chairs Steve Smyth, Carsten Rönsdorf and others.
One question is why the data sets exist as separated files. In the city of Geneva, as in almost all city GIS departments, creation and maintenance of different data sets are the responsibilities of different agencies or departments with expertise in each domain. The data's maintenance is a cost center that needs to be attributable to specific budgets and uses drive the selection of formats in which the data are provided. That said, independent data sets have to be coerced into working happily and seamlessly together when developing a multi-disciplinary application.
Wouldn’t it be valuable for the datasets could be viewed/accessed right from a server in a continuous model and to see where and how they overlap? We had a discussion about the use of CityGML for this purpose. "Determining fitness for purpose and the type and amount of work needed to fit them together is really hard without using actual samples" notes Carsten Rosendorf.
Carsten suggests that if the data could be conflated into one CityGML model for everybody to use, it would be a great start. It might be possible that the developers would be able or would need to do this (conflate data, not necessarily into a CityGML model) prior to developing their applications.
The 3DGVA can help the developer and data publisher communities better understand these issues. Now all that is needed is the team to conflate these data sets into a CityGML model of Geneva. Is that your calling? If so, please raise your hand!
The SITG has provided a data set of buildings that have been scanned with LiDAR at LOD 3 to 50 cm accuracy. Click on this link to download the full list of buildings.
We are particularly excited about the opportunities to scan and create special projects on and in the Hotel de Ville of Geneva.
The Hotel de Ville has an inner courtyard and a spiral staircase made of stone wide and long enough for horse and carriage. You can explore this beautiful building and learn about its special features by taking a virtual tour.
There's getting to be a lot of information on this portal. I've been asked to provide some suggestions for how to begin. Here's the recommend steps:
On Thursday May 8, we walked in the Showcase Event zone and took photos of buidlings and city features (staircases, murals) along the route we will take on June 11.
The photos were taken on the NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 that we will use for the showcase event. Click here to download zip file with all 38 un-retouched photos.
Unfortunately, the GPS tracking was not working while we were taking these photos so we will make an effort to manually add the position to those photos.
There are only 7 weeks until the opening of the OGC Geneva Technical Committee meeting on June 10. That's also the day we are going to load the Showcase projects on Android tablets in preparation for the event on June 12.
Today we launched the Showcase outreach campaign with targeted e-mail over 100 developers, to partners and to the providers of technology that could be valuable to developing innovative projects in Geneva.
We contacted the organizers of Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Data.ch, Mobile Monday Switzerland and executive director of Alp ICT.
We are also preparing for the first sponsor and partner teleconference to take place Thursday April 24.