Nov
19
2008
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 Journal Volume 2, Issue 2 was released today for GIS Day. It contains one article that provides an overview of the work blogged here: “IMMERSIVE 3D SIMULATOR-BASED GIS: SHARING THE 3D EXPERIENCE” The shot below details Mulford Hall on the UC Berkeley campus where our local GIS Day event was held again this year. Thanks to the GIF, ASPRS, and BAAMA organizers!
Detail of 1:16 Level 2 model, in Second Life Agni grid, Amida region, on 2008 11 19 GIS Day
Nov
17
2008
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 so many hours invested in the content that was created at rev 5411 that I’m a bit skittish with the bleeding edge updates.
Most recently, I’ve had the experience at osim.bargc.org of having only a single region be accessible at a time with the latest 1.21.6 SL viewer. So I vacillate between thinking “how convenient and attractive to use hosted Second Life Grid servers” and the hot-rodder thoughts “My 40-region sim is worth $7525 up front and $1610/month in tier for a nonprofit, so I can be tough.” I do tire of keeping the OpenSim server up and running with its load of content, yet with this real-world economy even avatars need to be frugal, no?
Thanks to Gualala neighbor Misty Rhodes for background