COMMUNITY SYSTEMS FOUNDATION

OCTOBER 6, 2007
Sandra Lach Arlinghaus, Ph.D.

Last year, the following task was identified as
"Future Work
Extend Ann Arbor, as a pilot project, elsewhere in the world
particularly where CSF has interests."

PROGRESS REPORT

Extension of Ann Arbor Google Earth model to the entire city:

  • Improved DDA buildings
  • University of Michigan Buildings, all georeferenced, many with textures
  • Google Build Your Campus Competition (Andrew Walton, Lauren Leigh Hoffman, Juan Sergio Ponce de Leon)
  • All buildings outside DDA, all georeferenced with 2 story heights--building footprints from Matt Naud; important plug-in from Mike Gebhard.
  • Use the linked page from the 3D Atlas of Ann Arbor to see screen captures of the above.  To see all the linked materials on this page, go directly to the entire 3D Atlas of Ann Arbor, 3rd Edition:  link.

Simple broader projects:

More complex broader projects:
  • Urban Geography Application
  • Population-Environment Dynamics Application (with Mike Batty)

Learning how to help others...
Extending projects and the prospect of self-reliance
Matt Naud, City of Ann Arbor Environmental Coordinator
  • Files of Allen Creek flood scenes for Matt Naud (and others):  subsequent development by intern, Yasuhiro Ishihara, to show more detailed topography for issue of possible Argo Dam removal.
  • Files associated with Pall-Gelman issue for Matt Naud and Mike Gebhard:  subsequent Google Earth development for Matt Naud and Roger Rayle.   Animation of screen captures from Google Earth model shows important changes by Rayle, to enhance his own earlier work, of base file made for him.  Work continues on developing a straightforward maintenance strategy as new data comes in.

University Resource:  3D Laboratory, Duderstadt Center. 
Klaus-Peter Beier, Director; Lars Schumann, Manager.  Link to the Virtual Reality Laboratory

3D Atlas of Ann Arbor, 3rd Edition:  cover image
See http://www.imagenet.org/

Praise from Google: 
Link to file of selected e-mail commentary.
Link to materials from the "Google Picks" category of the 3D Warehouse
Featured Modeler:  Archimedes
Cities in Development
Help Model a City

For the future:  continue to develop imaginative uses of Google Earth and work with Oswalt to integrate these, as possible, into the general DevInfo framework.

Work immediately prior to last year's presentation:
3D Atlas of Ann Arbor, 1st Edition.  3D Atlas of Ann Arbor, Flood file sample.
3D Atlas of Ann Arbor, Google Earth Approach:  Part I; Part II
Buildings and floods...

Earlier work
Previous work, coupled using kiosks to move from one scale to another.  Look at the "Archive," too.  Note links on buildings and on kiosks within the associated vrml files.  There are links throughout to work done by students in previous years and to work done by various professional colleagues.

Clickable maps display large amounts of information quickly and easily.
   Interactive map showing downtown area.
   Interactive map showing parcels in Allen Creek floodplain and floodway.

Virtual London:  similar strategies employed in London and in Ann Arbor.

Web presentation from City Hall on flooding concerns.

Minutes from a Downtown Residential Taskforce meeting.

  Copyright, S. Arlinghaus, 2007.