Virtual Cities on the Web

‘Virtual Cities’ on the Web are becoming more and popular mainly due to the advances in the process of digitisation of large topographic areas. These usually include areas such as important landmarks, parts of cities or even whole cities.

As far as the visualisation of the cities is concerned, VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) offer the possibilities to interact with three-dimensional information and navigate inside virtual environments. VRML works as a plug-in on web browsers and it is free of download.

A list of some examples of virtual cities that are free to navigate is provided below:

Virtual City (UK)
http://www.locus.org.uk/Virtual%20City/virtual_city.html

Virtual London (UK)
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/projects/projectDetail.asp?ID=55

Virtual Medieval Castles (UK)
http://www.timeref.com/3dindex.htm

VRGlasgow (Scotland)
http://www.vrglasgow.co.uk/

Virtual St. Pierre church (France)
http://christler.cedric.free.fr/stpierre/

Virtual Toronto (Kanada)
http://www.intoronto.com/

Virtual Xanthi (Greece)
http://www.67100.gr/

Virtual Ljubljana (Slovenia)
http://www.ljubljana.si/en/ljubljana/virtual_ljubljana/default.html