Maitri Erwin is a geophysicist at an independent energy company, where she wades through terabytes of 3D seismic data daily. She has previously worked as 3D-geospatial technology executive and energy geoscientist. Maitri is also Indian Languages advisor to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.net">Project Gutenberg</a>, the oldest producer of free electronic books.
Consumers going into the second decade of the 21st century must focus on content and delivery – useful content in an accessible and understandable format on a relatively fast and ubiquitous machine – as their technology drivers. Open data, better communication and scrutinizing intent in this day and age of Twitter and other social media will make this happen.
With Google Maps tripping down the quality scale, while adding 3D cities functionality and increasing the quality of its StreetView, this seems like the logical next step for MapQuest.
Consider it the flash mob of Building Information Modeling but with a technological purpose. This should be interesting to follow over the next couple of days.
You weren’t cool or old enough to be present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989? How about now via virtual time travel in Twinity?
In a piece called “A new way of looking at the world,” CNN Tech explores the boom of visualization tools and results, with emphasis on social media apps as visualization enabler.
Maitri Erwin interviews Edward Tufte, the guru of information visualization, for VizWorld after his Presenting Data & Information lecture in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 25th, 2009.
skyphyr at Binary Iris posts a scathing review of the practises of TurboSquid, the largest online marketplace for 3d creators.
Matt Artz over at the wonderful GIS & Science blog has posted a video of Southern California earthquakes between 1932 and 2008.
Maitri wanders into Twinity and comments on virtual worlds & digital cities and their implications.
I have registered for the Cincinnati talk on August 25th and will be interviewing Mr. Tufte following the lecture. What do yaou, dear readers, want to know from Tufte? This is a chance to get your questions answered by the king of data visualization himself.