What I found most impressive was the data overlay, in particular those in regards to height limitations throughout the CBD. The texturing of the buildings left a little to be desired as they were mainly aerial photographs which had been photomatched to produce a model, but I guess we set the bar pretty high over here at S-A as we built our early model of the CBD using a catalogue of 15megapixel DSLR photographs shot from street level. The model also shows shadowing like all good models should. There will be i'm told overlays for services like gas, electricity and so forth which is good. Performance wise the model runs quite well on the hardware on demonstration, much as you would expect from Google Earth maybe a tad slower in rendering all the models.
Still a few minor bugs to iron out from what I can see (e.g. doesn't seem to load up in my version of Firefox 3.5).
The whole setup runs on a system called Terraexplorer, and you'll need to download a plugin to view it.
But overall, the potential is there for it to be a truly great tool. And the fact that proposed developments will go onto the model so you can see buildings currently at the DA stage is fantastic, I can see it being very very very useful. Actually, it's probably to me the best thing about this tool, the fact that developers need to submit a model when putting together their plans to goto council da.
All in all, congrats once again for this Australia first move into cyberspace.
You can check it out for yourself here :
http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/deve ... odel.html#
But i'd definitely like to get a visual walkthrough of Adelaide through the ages.
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