{"id":1096,"date":"2013-07-08T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2013-07-08T03:07:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T03:07:25","slug":"the-esriuc-2nd-annual-3d-mapping-and-lidar-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"The ESRIUC – 2nd Annual 3D Mapping and Lidar Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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San Diego Convention Center, in a word: big<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well if you monitor my twitter feeds I’m in San Diego attending the ESRIUC 2013. \u00a0 More specifically I came to present my thing about CityEngine i.e. an update to my previous presentations on “the Instant City”. \u00a0 Apologies to those who have already seen it\/something similar from me!<\/p>\n

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Senior Executives get very comfy chairs at their seminar #awesome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To be honest I was planning something more ‘interactive’ and more of a live demo, but in the end not only did I ‘bottle it’ I also run out of time to organise such an endeavour. \u00a0 \u00a0Nevermind I hope to up my game for the Geodesign Summit in Europe in September<\/a>. \u00a0 I think it went down well judging by the conversations I had with people (you can correct me if I’m wrong in the comments section below!).<\/p>\n

So what did I do today? \u00a0 Well, first I thought I’d attend the ‘Senior Executive Seminar’, not just to feel like a ‘senior executive’ although that appeals to me obviously. \u00a0 \u00a0I really wanted to hear Jack speak, but actually I was more interested in the Philadelphia story presented by Adel Ebeid. \u00a0 As I’m interested in cities I was hoping for some insight and inspiration I could take back to some of our city master planning projects, I was not disappointed. \u00a0 As usual the one I went for wasn’t the one that stood out for me, that honour goes to John Heltzel’s presentation a snappy and fast paced affair that dealt with real world management of responses to disasters. \u00a0To be honest a complete eye opener for me, refreshing in it’s real world practicality.<\/p>\n

I then popped over to attend the 3D Mapping and Lidar Forum<\/a> as really this is why I am here. \u00a0 Lots of stuff on Lidar as one would expect I just wish I worked on projects that used and could afford it!<\/p>\n

Three presentations stood out for me, probably because they were on my breakout session (and therefore in my understanding range).<\/p>\n

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Proper workflows from Tal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Top of my list goes to Tal \u00a0Aisenberg from WATG<\/a>, finally someone who is in my industry and ‘gets’ CityEngine. \u00a0 I can’t tell you how often I have doubted my sanity when talking about how transformational CityEngine is for our industry and here is someone who gets it. \u00a0 His presentation was far better than mine and refreshingly didn’t use Powerpoint. \u00a0 I look forward to working with him and sharing rule files in the future,is this the start of a proper CityEngine UK user group? I hope so.<\/p>\n

Kevin Devito from CyberCity3D<\/a>\u00a0as far as I can gather a small but highly innovative data provider who can make you 3D cities from their own propriety in-house software and some stereo imagery. \u00a0 He and I will have words about what 3D data he can get me I’m sure.<\/p>\n

David Burdock comes from E-on software gave a great a quick live demo of the new Lumen RT GeoDesign plugin for CityEngine<\/a>. \u00a0I’ve been aware of the software but never fully appreciated quite how well it plugins and provides support to the CityEngine concept. \u00a0I also like the idea of minimal intervention and the ‘one button solution’ \u00a0seems to sit well with me.<\/p>\n

A big thank you to all those who I spoke to, I know there were people I didn’t get a chance to say hello, I’ll put it down to my jetlag….<\/p>\n

A highly productive and interesting day though, I think I’m going to get a lot out of this ESRIUC…. now I’m off to bed as it’s all catching up on me….<\/p>\n

For those who are interested here is my PDF version of my presentation. \u00a0Also if you’re interested in CityEngine and want to talk about real world uses (not just how ESRI thinks it should be used) then drop me a line or if you’re at the UC come say hi….<\/p>\n

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