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(b)
FIGURE 4.11 AR applications from the Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis. (a) UCLive and (b) visualising
a 3D city on an actual desk.
University College London utilising the Vuforia AR Extension for Unity which allows developers
to build AR apps using the cross-platform game engine - Unity.
Clearly, we are moving towards a more mobile-orientated Internet with many services oper-
ating in the cloud. Developments towards the semantic Web (W3C, 2013), a web of data, where
'information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in
cooperation' (Berners-Lee et al., 2001), are slowly being developed and are likely to impact how
information is stored and accessed. For instance, if more data are structured, they are more easily
searchable and this can be indexed to places and locations and fed into Digital Earths and virtual
worlds. Moreover, it is not just using people as sensors that are changing how geographical infor-
mation is collected but also the proliferation of satellites for high-resolution image capture. This
too has changed from large government organisations to small companies offering services such
as that of Skybox Imaging. We are also witnessing more target adverts with respect to LBS and
more personalised maps such as those from Google. With the rapid technological changes and the
fast evolution of Web 2.0 applications, it is difficult to precisely predict the path that the GeoWeb
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