Life in 3D

 

Forget Avatar in 3D, now you can check out a brand new 3D city mapping service - Skape has been designed for architects, planners and surveyors and will allow them to manipulate urban landscapes online by combining high resolution 3D textured city models with 2D mapping and terrain data - a technological first...

Created and developed by Infoterra, provider of geographic information products and services, Skape can be used to access major UK cities, enabling urban planners to rapidly develop highly detailed architectural models and save on both time and costs.

With Skape, new buildings can be imported into a city and viewed in context with their surroundings, whilst existing buildings can be instantly removed and replaced. The high level of accuracy means that varying building textures, street furniture, light and sun shadowing at different times of the day, and unlimited vantage points can be observed from anywhere in this online environment.

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