City of London Growth Timeline
This Google Earth animation shows a timeline of the 80 tallest structures built, and demolished in the City of London from the 1950s onwards.
The buildings are stylized, untextured SketchUp models (fairly basic to ensure smooth playback). Which I’ve animated during their construction and demolition by gradually being scaled upwards, and downwards.
For reference the file includes an optional, low-rise massing model, this is a simple extruded vector map of the City’s current buildings.
City of London Growth Animation
1MB
Recommended Playback Settings
- Toggle off Google Earth’s 3D Building Layer (under ‘Layers’) - these buildings get in the way of the animation.
- To see the model at various points in time, either hit play (to the right of the time slider), or drag the time slider by its base.
- Animation speed can be varied via the time slider option settings, accessed through the white clock face to the left of the time control.
- Unfortunately, the animation flickers the first few times it’s played. This is due to the way Google Earth loads the models individually into memory.
Posted By James On May 26th, 2007.
Comments: 7
Comments
Pingback from Google Earth Imagery Updates
Time: July 27, 2007, 11:57 pm
[...] City of London Timeline [...]
Pingback from You can only tell the shape of things by looking at the edges » Blog Archive » ASLA Tas Conference - site list
Time: August 15, 2007, 1:35 pm
[...] Earthwww.googlelittrips.com/ London timeline (kmz file –neds to be locally held in Google Earth)www.youtube.comwww.teachertube.com Example of [...]
Pingback from » ECAWA Conference Mandurah WA 23-24 August 2007 You can only tell the shape of things by looking at the edges
Time: August 24, 2007, 12:33 am
[...] London timeline (kmz file –needs to be locally held in Google [...]
Pingback from Auch London wurde nicht in einem Tag erbaut | Vogelschau - Blog über digitale Kartografie
Time: September 16, 2007, 8:02 am
[...] sehr schönes Beispiel hierfür ist die City of London Growth Timeline, welche den Bau der 80 grössten Gebäude im Zentrum von London im Zeitraffer darstellt. [...]
Comment from Stuart
Time: December 7, 2007, 8:03 pm
Loving the London timeline - thank you for the inspiration.
I wondered whether it’s possible to present a similar .kmz file and its data using Google Earth but in a Flash player or other way so users of a web site can use the application without actually having to download the application which I know is arouns 12MB.
Comment from m.g
Time: February 16, 2008, 10:57 am
thank you for picture of london
very good and beauty
Comment from Martin
Time: June 4, 2008, 9:29 am
Thanks - that was interesting - didn’t know you could do that on Google - must have taken some hours and hard work..!
Write a comment