-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [ Outdoor 3-D mapping] Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:11:05 -0700 From: "A'Hearn, William" <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ 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 To: [log in to unmask] 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 -- Steve Mullin Operations Director Lawrence Hall of Science University of California, Berkeley 94720-5200 510-643-7653 [log in to unmask]