OpenSim LiDAR sculpties – too much of a good thing?
Wow it has been a lot of effort to get the 40 regions built out with their LiDAR surface sculpties. Someday when the process gets automated I’ll look back and likely feel like a fool for not loading...
View ArticleCase Study: USGS terrain in OpenSim, a GIS approach
ABSTRACT: When creating sims based on real-world terrain, there’s usually a lot more extent and detail available than is typical when one must hand craft every region landscape. When compared with...
View ArticleSecond Life, OpenSim, and Civic Mirror Worlds
From here on the west coast of the USA, the world has seemed a bit tumultuous in the past four weeks. In a more compact and local way, this has been a time of review and reflection for me. This week I...
View ArticleCountdown to GIS Day
I’m finding little time for keeping the OpenSim instance current. For me, there’s been a lot of problems with the more recent (last six weeks) versions simply working on first try. Also, since I have...
View ArticleImmersive 3D article in BAAMA Journal – GIS in OpenSim and Second Life
The San Francisco Bay Area Automated Mapping Association is our local URISA chapter, and publishes a twice-yearly journal that covers some interesting local geospatial projects. The latest, BAAMA...
View Article3D Geospatial Day at BAAMA.org
With this presentation as an extra boost for my focus on a new build, I'm gearing up with even more enthusiasm for a new build in the Agni (mainland) grid. I've also tuned the Berkeley parcel for sale....
View ArticleMarin Civic Center 1:1 scale texture in Stanford – feels bigger than OpenSim
Only the four-story Administration building (wing), not the two-story Hall of Justice. I’m tired so I’ll let the shot speak for me. To me, it’s mildly amazing to realize that F.Ll.Wright’s design fits...
View ArticleSIMGIS Move: OpenSim for workbench, SL for presentation
Down in the “basement” a server awaits a bit of configuration to become an OpenSim lab to support the Marin Civic Center development. How nice it would be to load terrain into a portion of a Second...
View ArticleTerrain on tap – OpenSim on deck
There’s some progress on a couple of project fronts. I’ve started assembling some USGS terrain for a 1:10 scale Level 1 build that could involve more OpenSim regions than I’ve ever stood up on one...
View ArticleA visit to ScienceSim Geography regions – OpenSim with turbo boost
I don’t have much to say about these regions that hasn’t been written already, and my views have been less aesthetic than Shenlei’s. But in the interest of boosting the bandwidth by which I can share...
View ArticleOpen Simulator joins the SGeoS build — a strategy for blogging the builds
This is the first of what should be a set of posts that detail a server build process for the San Francisco Enterprise Geographic Information Systems Program (SFGIS) Standard Geospatial Server...
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