Walking Through Time is a SatNav for historical maps: A phone app that combines GPS technology with old maps to allow users to walk through time. The Map set is for central Edinburgh and allows the user to see a variety of Historic maps from 1740 to 1960. The application also comes with a set of narrated walking tours from the Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh.
Its a great concept, the movie below provides more details:
We hope to see more cities become available over the coming months, get in touch with Chris Speed from the Edinburgh College of Art for more details.
A quick follow up post on our previous first look at the free Gorillacam app for the iPhone. Despite the iPhone known camera limitations it still does a good job at timelapses with enough resolution to add in various panning movements as per our latest clip below:
Music is courtesy again of unsigned band - Lemonade Joe.
UpNext 3D NYC is the first 3D city app we have seen on the iPhone. The application allows the user to explore Manhattan via a 3D map with the normal subway/search functions.
The demo below provides a walkthough:
In days gone by this would of been called 'mobile 3D GIS', nowadays mapping apps are ubiquitous with the inclusion of 3D fast becoming the selling point. Is the 3D map anything more than a gimmick? The same question has been asked for years about 3D GIS in general, for the record we think its great.. iTunes Link: http://www.itunes.com/app/upnextnyc
The porting of Augmented Reality to mobile devices has notable implications for data distribution and navigation in the city. Georg Klein, a post-doctoral research assistant in the Active Vision Group of the Oxford University Engineering Department, has posted his results developing 3D Augmented Reality (AR) on the iPhone. The clip details an adaptation of the parallel tracking and mapping system to an iPhone:
Georg notes that it still needs a lot of work - the camera's narrow field-of-view is problematic - but they can already make and track small maps. Of note is the use of the iPhone 3G rather than the 3GS with the built in compass see http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gk for full details and past projects.
Thanks go to Greg Downing for the link, anyone interested in panoramas and 3d modelling techniques should take a look at his work via http://www.gregdowning.com/
