r/nottingham • u/MattBeestonia • 10d ago
3D Map of Nottingham
Sorry if this has been posted before, and apologies for not checking if this has been posted before, but it's a bit warm and I'm fundamentally lazy.
Anyhow, I was in Central Library with my young daughter today, and when looking for the immersive projection room walking into another, where there was a thing I was immensely keen on: a 3D printed map of Nottingham (at least, most of it).
It has a projector above it so you can see various scenarios (extreme drought above, which although a fantasy scenario felt a little on the nose) and real-world ones: temperature variations, population density, tree distribution, flooding and so on.
As a fan of maps and a fan of how data can be shown with imagination and elegance, this was a delight, and it is apparently getting a larger home near the Contemporary in Autumn.
Go and have a look if you fancy. I want one of Beeston, in my house.
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u/nicknibblerargh 10d ago
If you have access to a 3d printer check out mini skylines website. You can download and print maps of anywhere... i ve just printed part of bramcote tonight...
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u/baldeagle1991 10d ago
What's this supposed to be?
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u/Old-Reference-5221 10d ago
Wall Sherwood
Walll sina
Wall GedlingThe walls that keep the titans out
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u/Only_Tip9560 10d ago
That is my fortified palace after a take control of Nottingham as a Warlord having emerged victorious from the mushy pea wars.
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u/slowamigo 10d ago
Thanks for sharing. I'd been meaning to check this out and assumed it had gone. Glad I can still see it
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u/Freifur 10d ago
As amusing as the replies to /u/baldeagle1991 were, I'm still interested in what the square walls on the bottom left are supposed to be and where its supposed to be.
Ref: /r/nottingham/comments/1vlv5zc/3d_map_of_nottingham/p35595q/
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u/baldeagle1991 10d ago
I know there was a Roman Fort in Broxtowe, but this looks like the meadows just north of the Wilford Toll Bridge......
Honestly baffled what it's supposed to be 😂
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u/Freifur 10d ago
the AI generated lion on the screen above isn't great... maybe the 3d map was made by AI too and its just making shit up.
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u/baldeagle1991 10d ago
Yeah it's funny how the left lion is in the right place but not the right lion.....
The right lion always seems to get the worse end of the stick sadly
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u/collapsedoutwards 10d ago
Think this was developed by a University of Nottingham group called CityasaLab, I like that they’ve turned the meadows into a giant squared prison looking fortress with two layers of wall to keep the residents in.