links for 2008-11-13

• Vastee entreprises virtuelles second life
  (tags: secondlife sl enterprise entreprise business french)
• Web GIS in practice V: 3-D interactive and real-time mapping in Second Life
  This paper describes technologies from Daden Limited for geographically mapping and accessing live news stories/feeds, as well as other real-time, real-world data feeds (e.g., Google Earth KML feeds and GeoRSS feeds) in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life, by plotting and updating the corresponding Earth location points on a globe or some other suitable form (in-world), and further linking those points to relevant information and resources. This approach enables users to visualise, interact with, and even walk or fly through, the plotted data in 3-D. Users can also do the reverse: put pins on a map in the virtual world, and then view the data points on the Web in Google Maps or Google Earth. The technologies presented thus serve as a bridge between mirror worlds like Google Earth and virtual worlds like Second Life. ….
  (tags: second play2train journal googleearth data visualization virtualworlds secondlife GIS)
• Ancient Rome in Google Earth
  (tags: rome history googleearth google 3d earth teaching visualization)