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Gaming Platforms Drive Digital Reality
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on Thursday February 23, @11:05AM
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GeoPlace host an article linking game platforms and geospatial technologies. From the article: "It's obvious that geospatial technologies can contribute greatly to achieving more realistic environments, with ancillary benefits for society if these worlds model reality rather than imaginary environments. [...] The needs of game developers are starting to closely match the needs of geospatial technology practitioners. The key is to gain from the other's experience, rather than continuing on a parallel development path."
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A recent post at Digital Urban highlights their work using geospatial technologies for mapping virtual worlds like 2nd Life and Ultima VII. In this example, image tiles are extracted from Ultima VII using Exult and visualized on Virtual Earth. From the post: "The rise of simple to use geographic information systems such as Google Maps and Microsoft's Virtual Earth are making it increasingly easy to map any information which is geographically organised. As such maps do not have to link to the real world, virtual and game space can also be mapped and displayed using the same set of tools."
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