The Digital City is a short film sequence that incorporates a number of visualisation techniques in order to simulate and introduce the concept of the emerging Digital City. From crowdsourcing and the open source to augmented reality and advanced spatial analysis, the film constantly flips between experiences of the real and virtual, a relationship that is becoming increasingly blurred. One of the key scenes involves live footage of a street scene where historic footage (It Was A Wonderful Rag Yes, Indeed 1932 - shown right) is shown augmented onto the real scene in equal spatial terms, demonstrating the notion that the virtual is able to greatly enhance, rather than replace, our experience of the physical.
Thanks must go to Ollie O'Brien for his visualisation of the OpenStreetMap Milton Keynes Mapping Party in May last year as well as A Year of Edits by ITO World, both of which are licensed under the CC-BY-SA attribution.
