Posts Tagged ‘virtual’

  • Virtual journey on the Transiberian Railway

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    The combination between Google Maps and YouTube allows you to make a virtual travel from Moscow to Vladivostok. The video is georeferenced and synchronized with the map. This feature allows you to navigate on the map an see the corresponding section in the video.

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    The great Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, goes across two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities. The joint project of Google and the Russian Railways lets you take a trip along the famous route and see Baikal, Khekhtsirsky range, Barguzin mountains, Yenisei river and many other picturesque places of Russia without leaving your house. During the trip, you can enjoy Russian classic literature, brilliant images and fascinating stories about the most attractive sites on the route. Let’s go!

    You can see this widget on : http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html

  • Augmented Reality and mobile GIS – An interesting topic

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    Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (see definition at Wikipedia).

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    The application fields of augmented reality for spatial problems are very broad. The contain navigation, enviromental planning, etc. Object recognition is here also an issue. Currently many GI researchers are dealing with the topic of augmented maps. Some interesting papers are for example:

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