ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D with live trains, and Leap Motion

Post by robhawkes » Sun, Jun 09, 2013, 1:31 PM UTC

rurounijones wrote: post #19

robhawkes wrote: post #15

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Noticed you updated the comment… Re: "Shiny". We're working on a huge number of different features and we didn't want to overload the latest update with things we'd already covered in the first update – things like statistical data visualisation, etc. We're still working on those areas though and they are still a priority, they just don't need as much work as the other features right now.

Yea, sorry about that, I thought I edited it quickly enough that no one will have read it yet. My ninja skillz need training.

Post by robhawkes » Sun, Jun 09, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC

camus wrote: post #22

great project , cant wait to test it.

Post by robhawkes » Sun, Jun 09, 2013, 2:29 PM UTC

a_n_o_nymous wrote: post #24

rurounijones wrote: post #13

awesome, I was getting a bit worried about the lack of updates on their blog. Thrilled that they are actually talking to various agencies. I am a bit worried about the attention given to "shiny" (Leap Motion, Twitter, vehicles etc.) features rather than actually useful statistical stuff but I am hoping they are just working on this while they are in discussions with said agencies.

It's just a overhyped shiny toy...

Post by vijayr » Sun, Jun 09, 2013, 3:40 PM UTC

dojodonk wrote: post #10

robhawkes wrote: post #8

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Glad you're excited about it. We don't have a date yet but we're working hard to get it out as soon as we feel it's ready. And London to start with, though we already have plans for other cities (so long as the data exists). Any suggestions for cities?

San Fran would be great although any city would be interesting

Post by a_n_o_nymous » Sun, Jun 09, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

pchristensen wrote: post #28

a_n_o_nymous wrote: post #26

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I did sign up for the beta (following the initial post). So far, I've only seen overexcitment for a simple web-based viewer that displays very few data layers for a specific city and lacks a lot of useful information: for instance there are no POIs / streets labels / ... In this regard, I believe the recently unveiled WebGL-based Maps / Earth from Google are significantly more advanced. Most of the focus of your proj…

When google maps came out, it had noticeably worse data than MSN Maps and Mapquest, bit it was fast and slick. Don't compare 4 months of work by 2 people against what Google has accomplished in a decade.