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2 FH Kärnten (Carinthian University of Applied Sciences) students have published a great 3D modell of the Hypo Group Arena in Klagenfurt. In a few days the Euro 2008 will start and more people will see the Euro stadium.

The 3D model was designed in a project course in the period of August to November 2007 by two students (Daniel Lesjak, Matic Mrak) of the degree program Telematics / Network Engineering at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences.

Link: http://www.fh-kaernten.at/euro2008/

Google Earth Model: http://www.fh-kaernten.at/tel-projekte/stadion.kmz

Written and submitted from CUAS, using their network.

Klagenfurt is the capital of the federal state of Carinthia (where I live) in Austria. It has a population of over 90,000 people, making it the sixth-largest city in the country. Klagenfurt is also a host city of the EURO 2008 which will take place next month in Switzerland and Austria. Now there is a cool new service simmilar to Google’s Streetview available, where you can see georeferenced Panoramas of the city. The great thing here is that there are also photos of walking areas available.

Screenshot of the Site:

(Click on the image to enlarge)

If you are interested you can also see it live at http://www.virtual-klagenfurt.at/

Unfortunately there is no information who has implemented this service. But I suggest this is a private project. The service is also relatively new therefore users have the posibillity to report errors.

Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.

The 160m² large aerial photo map includes the Dreiländereck Austria-Italy-Slovenia, and is located in Villach, Austria. The three regions of Carinthia, Friuli and Slovenia can be playfully explored from the air: The 160m² large orthophotograph showning parts of Carinthia, Italy and Slovenia is one of main attractions at the new shopping center ATRIO in Villach. 6000 sq. km of the earth’s surface are displayed here in a scale of 1:8000. That allows to display objects in a very large detail: Persons can cross the boarders of three countries, but also individual houses, bridges, cars on the street, trees and many other details can be discovered.

To produce such a great map  several thousand actual flight recordings have to put together, the pictures have to be rectified geometrically and the different coordinate systems of the countries have to fit together. Also shadows has to be maniputated that it appereas that all pictures has been taken on the same time.

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This weekend the Barcamp SezaConfini will take place in Klagenfurt. Let’s see what we can learn form there.  I’m looking forward to see some interesting talks. For more information check http://www.barcamp.at/BarCamp_Senza_Confini_2008

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Written and submitted from CUAS, Villach.