3pointD.com

Fred Limp of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas has the first of three articles up on geoplace.com, titled An Impending Massive 3D Mashup, which look at how 3D technologies are going to have a greater and greater impact on the world. (I hesitate to send readers to geoplace’s crappy Web site, but it makes good reading if you can overlook all the awful bells and whistles.) The first article looks at some of the technologies that will contribute to the 3pointD-ization of the world, with the impact of such technologies to be explored in parts 2 and 3. A taste of what’s to come:

The technologies behind MMOGs, when integrated with the other aspects, will change the “(Geo)world” completely, and it will happen soon — if not right now. What will the new (Geo)world look like? Where will we get and store all the data? How will we integrate different workflows and (sometimes) conflicting professional attitudes and perspectives? And, perhaps most importantly, why is this inevitable?

(Via Ogle Earth.)