Virtual Mapping

The race to develop an interactive 3 dimensional map of the world is now in full swing with the Microsoft Virtual Earth project and Google Earth.
The first attempts at this revolutionary concept utilising 3D triangulation photography and CAD were first displayed online in a virtual reality environment and produced by Craig Dunning in the late 1990s on this website.
You can see the original concept here (you will need to install the old Cosmo VRML browser). Aerial photographs and hundreds of street/skyscraper level images were utilised to map the city of Sydney Australia. The project was dropped due to lack of funding and interest at the time.

Virtual Globes

Another early concept trialed on this website was the concept of the Virtual Globe.
See one of the earliest concepts by clicking on the banner below (you will need to install the Metastream Browser). Once again, this project was dropped due to lack of funding and interest at the time.