I'm Robin, the creator of ViziCities. Feel free to ask me any questions about the 3D geospatial framework, UrbanSim or anything else :)
Why didn't you call it GeoCities?
All right, I'll get my coat.
Show HN: ViziCities 0.3 – Framework for geospatial visualisation in the browser
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#13I'm Robin, the creator of ViziCities. Feel free to ask me any questions about the 3D geospatial framework, UrbanSim or anything else :)
This looks incredible. Thank you Robin!
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#15Hey Rob,
Congrats on the new release! ViziCities is one of the top geospatial frameworks out there and very excited to see it continuously improving.
Your "Lessons Learnt" development post on mozilla a couple years back was absolutely invaluable.
Re: Show HN: ViziCities 0.3 – Framework for geospatial visualisation in the browser
#16Hey Rob, Congrats on the new release! ViziCities is one of the top geospatial frameworks out there and very excited to see it continuously improving. Your "Lessons Learnt" development post on mozilla a couple years back was absolutely invaluable.
Thank you! I'm glad that you found the development post on MozHacks useful – I should really do a 2016 updated version...
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#17This looks great, congrats!
It's a bit slow on my machine (the linked demos), is that a general issue due to 3d rendering capabilities, or is just the data source for the demos slow?
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#18This looks great, congrats! It's a bit slow on my machine (the linked demos), is that a general issue due to 3d rendering capabilities, or is just the data source for the demos slow?
Thank you!
The performance could be a bit of both I imagine – a computer with a weak GPU or a visualisation at sufficiently large resolution will strain the framerate, especially the higher quality demos (eg. "All The Things").
The data sources are remote and so you may notice tiles and data taking a little while to load before popping into view. This is something I'm looking to improve with more sophisticated networking and Web Workers for background processing without locking up the browser.
Re: Show HN: ViziCities 0.3 – Framework for geospatial visualisation in the browser
#19This looks great, congrats! It's a bit slow on my machine (the linked demos), is that a general issue due to 3d rendering capabilities, or is just the data source for the demos slow?
Thank you! The performance could be a bit of both I imagine – a computer with a weak GPU or a visualisation at sufficiently large resolution will strain the framerate, especially the higher quality demos (eg. "All The Things"). The data sources are remote and so you may notice tiles and data taking a little while to load before popping into view. This is something I'm looking to improve with more sophisticated networ…
It is - just tried it out on my work machine, a little faster now (with much better GPU).
Re: Show HN: ViziCities 0.3 – Framework for geospatial visualisation in the browser
#20I'm Robin, the creator of ViziCities. Feel free to ask me any questions about the 3D geospatial framework, UrbanSim or anything else :)
Really cool project, definitely something I might find useful in the near future.
Is there a way to connect attributes/metadata to each building and access it by clicking on a building?