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Subject: RE: [ Outdoor 3-D mapping]
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:11:05 -0700
From: "A'Hearn, William" <[log in to unmask]>


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I'm not sure this is the type of info you are looking for, but I thought
I'd
pass it along.  We (City of Glendale, CA) are presently updating our
aerial
photographs, and as part of the project we are acquiring a 3-D model of
our
City.  The model will be created by using our DEMs and the aerials from
this
project.  The company doing the work is Solid Terrain Modeling
(http://www.solidterrainmodeling.com/) and they are located in Fillmore,
CA.
They can send you a sample of their work if you are (seriously)
interested.
While cut & pasting the URL from their webpage for this email I noticed
that
they just completed a model across the bay for San Francisco.

Good Luck,  I'd love to see your model when it's completed.

Bill A'Hearn, LSIT
GIS Analyst/Mapping Specialist
City of Glendale, CA

"A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the
realization of great dreams."
Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Editor of National Geographic (1903- 1954)


-----Original Message-----
From: Johnnie D. Sutherland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:39 PM
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Subject: [ Outdoor 3-D mapping]


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Outdoor 3-D mapping
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:00:26 -0700
From: Steve Mullin <[log in to unmask]>


Hello Johnnie,

If you have a good memory you may recall my involvement with the map
library
community some years back.  I worked at the UC Berkeley Map Library for
a
number of years and then imported Mexican mapping for a good long time.
I
still monitor Maps-L out of some nostalgia for those days.  Many of the
people I knew are still stalwarts of this vital community of mapping
professionals, most notably yourself!

I have a question that may be suitable for posting on Maps-L.   I
have been working of many years now at a science museum called the
Lawrence
Hall of Science.  One of our best features is the 180 degree view of San
Francisco Bay and surrounding land masses from our site 1100 feet above
the
Berkeley campus.  We just recently opened phase one of a new outdoor
exhibit
called "Forces That Shape the Bay" that seeks to explain and interpret
the
natural history of that fantastic view.  Phase two starts next year.
It's
centerpiece will be a 30' x 30' raised relief map of the Bay area,
designed
to be walked on and through.  The relief map will be a teaching tool for
our
k-12 education programs and a dramatic attention-getter for museum
visitors.
We are now pondering all of the design issues that go into making a
durable,
attractive, safe, and geographically accurate relief model that can
withstand the weather and elements and all those school kids.

I would like to contact other institutions who have built similar
outdoor
relief models.  If any Maps-L subscribers know of any, please let me
know.
If you have ideas on materials or operational issues I would love to
hear
them.

And an open invitation to Maps-L people:  stop by if you are in the area
and
ask for me. I' d be happy to show you around.  And maybe renew old
friendships at the same time.

Steve Mullin

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Steve Mullin
Operations Director
Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California, Berkeley 94720-5200
510-643-7653
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