a project by us in Oulu, 2007 & 2008 - KadonnutKaupunki .. happens in the real world, no tech used.
from a complete other direction: SolarSystem, http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php/solarsystem
elsewhere:
from: http://robsmart.co.uk/2009/01/22/visualizing-live-shipping-data-in-opensim-isle-of-wight-ferries/ Visualizing live shipping data in OpenSim (Isle of Wight Ferries)January 22, 2009 in by Rob | 5 comments
A couple of months back i spent some time writing a module for OpenSim, the purpose of this module being to allow you to connect directly to an MQTT messaging server from within the OpenSim scripting language. Thereby enabling real-time Publish Subscribe messaging in a 3d environment.
http://www.virtualwhite.com/?p=100 - Tutorial: Getting Real World Terrains into OpenSim "I named my first OpenSim region Orcas after a real world island. I decided to try and see if I could get the actual Orcas Island terrain into OpenSim to see how it looked and uncover any challanges one might face in bringing RL terrain into OpenSim. This tutorial will walk you through the process I followed and and various software packages required to make this happen (done on Windows). The net, net is I succeeded, but the results were uninspiring."
http://www.placematters.org/ "PlaceMatters? believes in informed, equitable, and effective citizen engagement in increasingly complex land use planning situations. We work to ensure that communities and organizations design and implement processes that garner broad public involvement and support and lead to sustainable, livable communities." .. they write e.g. to http://www.planetizen.com/ and http://www.zebralog.de/en/index.php
WorldChanging? http://www.worldchanging.com/about/ WorldChanging?.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together.
featuring MetroQuest?: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002915.html
"The drawback is that the underlying model remains hidden. As with other simulations, the results you get are highly contingent upon the choices developers make. As an example, another Envision project, the Climate Change Calculator, asks questions about lifestyle and home appliances in order to calculate an overall carbon budget (based on Canadian figures). But while it makes sure to give various options for fueling a water heater, for example, it doesn't ask if the heater has a thermal blanket; similarly, the question about home lighting has nowhere to identify incandescent vs. compact fluorescent. These simple examples (for an admittedly very basic calculator) hint at the larger issue for MetroQuest?: what results are unavailable because the underlying choices aren't allowed?This is not to say that the software is useless; as it's employed in coordination with a consulting engagement, whatever deficiencies are there can be discussed and mitigated over the course of the workshop. But it underscores a point I've made before: simulations of communities and social systems need to open source, so that the underlying assumptions and variables are clear and can be modified. When applied to energy and the environment, the need for open source is multiplied: changes to technology (e.g., the power output of domestic solar panels) and economics (e.g, the cost of domestic solar panels) can lead to radically different results. As MetroQuest? is intended to provide scenarios looking out 40 years, the need for modifiability based on technological changes is obvious.
I really want a tool like this to be useful and widely available. I'd love to see MetroQuest? in action, and try to find what assumptions underlie the model. (I wrote to Envision earlier this week, asking a few questions about the software, but they did not respond.) This is clearly a step up from SimCity? as a tool for planning scenarios, but how much of a step remains to be seen. Envision has used MetroQuest? around the world, although most of their engagements have been in Canada, such as with the 2004 "imagineCALGARY" project."
see PhysicalWorld
murder she wrote -- Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:23:04 +0200 reply
ed. note: that comment, with no content or possibly with some spam link, came here back then and i've just left it in place 'cause it seemed so strange :o
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