Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)
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Re: Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)
#3My father worked for a swiss company exclusively dedicated to move buildings from one place to another, like 20 years ago. I remember his anxiety when he was responsible for the transportation of this old church in Lucerne. He eventually came back to his home country and now restores medieval buildings to become summer houses for the rich.
Re: Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)
#4Heh. I once migrated a 1GB database from MySQL to Postgres. That was cool too.
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Thanks--fixed.
Re: Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)
#6Moving brick buildings is extremely tricky because brick is absolutely unforgiving when it comes to dealing with tensile stress. Super impressive this.
Re: Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)
#7I always wonder how GIS databases deal with that (since often they have the notion that buildings of this size "never" move). And I'm not only impressed with the engineering feat, but how the public and the owner worked together on a solution with both were ok with. In the US it would have sat in litigation for 15 years while no railroad work was done, and eventually the building would just be torn down even though the rail project had long since been abandoned. (ok maybe that is too cynical)
Re: Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)
#8I always wonder how GIS databases deal with that (since often they have the notion that buildings of this size "never" move). And I'm not only impressed with the engineering feat, but how the public and the owner worked together on a solution with both were ok with. In the US it would have sat in litigation for 15 years while no railroad work was done, and eventually the building would just be torn down even though t…
That's unrealistic as it implies we actually have rail projects in the US.
Re: Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)
#9I always wonder how GIS databases deal with that (since often they have the notion that buildings of this size "never" move). And I'm not only impressed with the engineering feat, but how the public and the owner worked together on a solution with both were ok with. In the US it would have sat in litigation for 15 years while no railroad work was done, and eventually the building would just be torn down even though t…
They probably just model it as the building being torn down and a new one appearing. I don't think there are any inherent properties to a building that needs to persist across a move?
Buildings are getting moved all the time, also in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_relocation
Re: Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)
#10I always wonder how GIS databases deal with that (since often they have the notion that buildings of this size "never" move). And I'm not only impressed with the engineering feat, but how the public and the owner worked together on a solution with both were ok with. In the US it would have sat in litigation for 15 years while no railroad work was done, and eventually the building would just be torn down even though t…
> since often they have the notion that buildings of this size "never" move
I fact OP probably got this from one of these "Falsehoods programmers believe about X" (probably this one: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en). It's always interesting how even the most basic assumptions contain caveats.