UK from above for BBC by 422

Ad, Design, geoblog, Geotagging, graphic design, Statistics, TV show by Thorsten Meyer on August 7, 2008 No Comments »

BBC Britain seen from the skies above

Quote from 422′s “Britain From Above” web page:

422 create Unique time-lapse views of British life using real GPS data for major new BBC series presented by Andrew Marr. 422 has created ground breaking CGI sequences revealing never seen before patterns of life in modern Britain. Starting with GPS data mapping the movements of London taxi cabs, commercial aircraft, Channel shipping, refuse trucks and schoolchildren, 422 MD and senior programmer Craig Howarth translated lists of raw numeric co-ordinates sampled at regular time intervals, into coherent animated paths. 422′s VFX team, led by Art Director Dave Corfield and VFX supervisor Andy Howell visualised the resulting paths in Maya and composited them with satellite imagery of the UK using Shake. The result is simultaneously beautiful, surprising and informative. “Click either of the images to take a look 422′s at web site and watch their reel.

BBC Britain seen from the skies above

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geoblog update

geoblog, Geotagging, StrongMocha by Thorsten Meyer on August 15, 2007 No Comments »

The StrongMocha geoblog went live on Au, 4th. With the new geoblog entries are linked to a location. geoblog is a new and different way to see my blog. On the geoblog page you find a map generated by Google that will show all post we make on a map. Just click on the “Show on geoblog ” above every posting that has a geolocation and you can see the post on a map showing you the location. This could show you where an photo was taken or a city on the map which was part of the entry.

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