Most of my exploration of virtual worlds for engineering has been in Second Life and OpenSim. However, this year I have been looking more at Unity3D. Engineers are conservative and seem to dismiss virtual worlds like Second Life and OpenSim. Even though these programs are 3D modeling tools, they don't resemble nor do they use [...]
Posts Tagged ‘GIS’
Using Unity3D to Simulate a City
August 14th, 2010 
Pam Broviak 
Posted in CAD, Civil Engineering, Development, GIS, Public Works, Public Works in the Metaverse 
Tags: CAD, city, engineering, GIS, planning, simulation, Unity3D, visualization 
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June 26th, 2010 Pam Broviak The U.S. federal government is continuing in their efforts to deliver data with the launch of the Geospatial Platform. "The Geospatial Platform will be a managed portfolio of common geospatial data, services, and applications contributed and administered by authoritative sources and hosted on a shared infrastructure, for use by government agencies and partners to meet [...]
The Promise of Data.gov
June 2nd, 2010 Pam Broviak Last month I had the incredible opportunity to participate in several Gov 2.0 events. One of the greatest take aways for me was finding all the people who are either working directly on the Data.gov project or involved in related initiatives. Data is a big deal for local government – particularly for those of us [...]
Boots on the Ground: Building a GIS, Part 1
July 19th, 2009 Pam Broviak The beginning in a series of blog posts focusing on building and implementing a GIS in local government.
Posted in GIS, Public Works, Public Works in the Metaverse Tags: CAD, engineering, General Government, GIS, mapping Comments OffInstitute for Geospatial Analysis & Mapping in SL
August 4th, 2008 Pam Broviak The Institute for Geospatial Analysis & Mapping (GEOMAP) showed up in Second Life late last month on Geo Island – a sim set up by Zeppo Romano for the Geography-Geology Department at Illinois State University. The Institute supports research, education, and training, and community outreach activities. This build has also been interesting to me for [...]
Posted in GIS, Public Works, Public Works in Second Life, Public Works in the Metaverse Tags: Bill Shields, GEOMAP, geospatial, GIS, second life, Zeppo Romano Comments OffA Little Bit of GIS in My Life
June 25th, 2008 Pam Broviak So today Rick Knights, technical service associate, with WTH Engineering stopped by to continue his work on helping us implement our city geographic information system, or GIS. Rick is a certified ENP or emergency number professional who is very familiar with how the 911 system works in the states. We began discussing the many intricacies [...]
Posted in GIS, Public Works, Public Works in the Metaverse Tags: 911, augmented reality, GIS, Public Works, utilities, virtual worlds, WTH Engineering Comments Off
