This reminded me of Trulia's property animations using historical home sales data:
http://hindsight.trulia.com/ The zoomed-out animation of LA is neat because you can see the homes fill out the natural boundaries of the ocean and surrounding mountains: http://hindsight.trulia.com/map/#lat=34.130&lon=-118.307&zoom=10&mix=0.456 Beau On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:58 AM, David Percy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw a very nice animation several years ago that showed population > growth in the Portland area from 1800s to present. As most of you probably > don't know, we have an Urban Growth Boundary here. > > The animation just showed population spreading outwards until it hit the > UGB, then backfilling into the UGB and increasing in density until today. > Leaving the farmland outside the UGB protected. Duh. > > It was really cool. I will be gone for the next week, but if I or anyone > else who has seen this animation, can think of the presenter we'll let you > know. I think it was someone from METRO. > Percy > > > Anselm Hook wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Thought I'd forward this to the hyper posse since it is somewhat > > relevant and it is for a good cause - and I wasn't able to find > > anybody in my immediate group who could help, > > > > Lisa Van Cleef at the Nature Conservancy mentioned that she needed a > > video sequence showing a zoom in of the planet earth over a city and a > > kind of animated sequence of two kinds of outcomes; one with unbounded > > growth and the resultant impact on the surrounding nature and another > > sequence with a more managed growth boundary. > > > > Initially I thought it might be more of a simulation kind of project, > > but since it's a canned sequence it is probably best done using tools > > like Alias/SoftImage etcetera. > > > > In any case hope it is not off-topic - seems like an interesting > > chance for somebody to do something for a for good organization. > > > > - anselm > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Lisa Van Cleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:41 AM > > Subject: Any Leads for Nature Conservancy? > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Good Morning Anselm, > > > > Were you able to find anyone interested in our project? Any leads > > would be greatly appreciated as I don't know where to turn on this > > project! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Lisa > > Please consider the environment before printing this email > > ________________________________ > > > > Lisa Van Cleef > > Associate Director > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > nature.org The Nature Conservancy > > Marketing Resource Center West > > 201 Mission Street > > San Francisco, CA 94105 > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > > > -- > David Percy > Geospatial Data Manager > Geology Department > Portland State University > http://gisgeek.pdx.edu > 503-725-3373 > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking >
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