DailyWireless has been down frequently during the last couple of weeks. Don Park is currently moving the DW site to a new hosting facility. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

Posting has also been light. Sam Churchill has taken off on a bender and can only be traced via empty Jack Daniel bottles and cigarette butts.

Meanwhile, here’s an off the wall idea; mapping photos to 3D maps.

• Vexcel Mapping: Vexcel has been a pioneer in combining visual imagery produced by photographic and hyperspectral cameras to 3D models, produced by LiDar (Laser Radar). Here’s a gallery of images and aerial photographs. Vexcel just bought a company who makes a state-of-the-art aerial camera (the UltracamD)
• GIS companies in my backyard include Spencer B. Gross who has a Lidar instrument and an UltraCamD.
• Kodak today announced new CCD 35mm sensors which will produce 7216 x 5412 pixel images (39 megapixels). No infrared or multi-spectral, though.
• Kite Aerial Photography might be one low-cost way to acquire aerial imagery. Small blimps might be another. You can rent a photography blimp for about $500 per half day. In my hometown HiCam and Sky-Shots are available.

While Google Earth is wonderful and amazing, perhaps a Firefox plug-in or Flock browser could have a 3D component for games. An emergency exercise could generate a database like KatrinaImagery for first responders and a 3D model for developers. Get FEMA to pay for it. Maybe it’s already available.

The city as game grid.

Sony’s Playstation Portable has shipped 10 million units with PSP game software shipping about 20 million units with 183 titles worldwide as of September, 2005. The UMD Video software titles have been expanding with cumulative production shipment exceeding 15 million units.

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Posted by Sam Churchill on Friday, October 21st, 2005 at 4:47 am.