Spaitial.space
Answering the question “What is Spatial AI?” with a 3D mindmap, outlining the connections between the wide range of topics that make up this emerging field.
Fully editable by you via the GitHub-hosted public repository: https://github.com/SPAITIAL/spaitial.space
Vertical.Earth
Google Maps sure are convenient, and have set the standard for web-based map interfaces for the last decade – but what happens if you want to go… up?
Vertical.earth is a solution to that problem – designed for my wife, a Geologist – to be able to quickly navigate through our assortment of drone photos, by both panning around north, south, east and west – AND being able to choose the image with the best altitude, as well.
All the better to be able to read the stratigraphy (ie: the lines of the layers in th ecliff faces) that are everywhere here on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia.
Undergroundy – the work in progress / the screensaver
It was *meant* to be the companion to the absolutely awesome windy.com – but whereas windy.com starts from the Earth’s surface and allows you to scroll upward into the atmosphere, this would have been the underground version: starting with the Earth’s surface, and allowing the user to slowly strip away the layers of the Earth, to reveal the soil and subsoil, the tectonic plates, the crust, and all the way down to the Earth’s core.
Sadly, I got sidetracked just JUST HOW BEAUTIFUL this turned out. If you leave the page running, it’s a beautiful screenaver. If you zoom in, you have a complete 3D-tiled map of the Earth.
Ignore the half-broken design elements on the page – they were the start of the scroll-down methodology. (If there’s enough interest, I’ll return to this project, and see about finsihing it!)
Why are so many megafauna fossils found in Lancefield, Victoria? A geospatial data visualisation story.
https://s9205210.undergroundy.com/
Megafauna (literally ‘large animals’) roamed across Australia from as far back as 2.5 million years ago. Species ranged from giant reptiles to oversized marsupials – but why did they all die out – and why are so many fossils located in this one really condensed spot?