Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Second Life and David Rumsey




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Here's a great use of the rich David Rumsey map collection. In Second Life, someone has drapped scans of some of the older maps over rendered topography for avatar investigations. See a post on it at the Not Possible IRL blog.



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You can read some more at Technology Review, but you can also hear a podcast on the use of the Rumsey maps in Second Life.


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I know it's not avatars in Google Earth like I've been waiting for, but it's getting closer.

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