{"id":396,"date":"2011-07-12T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T11:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lviz.org\/?p=396"},"modified":"2011-07-19T11:56:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T09:56:37","slug":"bright-gis-future-for-cityengine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Bright (GIS) Future for CityEngine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 11, 2011, Esri has announced the acquisition of Procedural Inc, Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>Years after the nifty but discontinued attempts of the SketchUp 6 \/ ArcGIS 9.2 Plug-in, ESRI takes the gloves off and finally makes a true jump into 3D cities modeling, planning and design. And finally GIS meets Games Design and vice versa. The rule-based approach of CityEngine apparently tasted right to Esri.<br \/>\nRead the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/news\/releases\/11-3qtr\/esri-acquires-3d-software-company-procedural.html\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.procedural.com\/company\/news\/news-single\/article\/esri-acquires-procedural\/1.html\" target=\"_blank\">FAQs for CityEngine customers<\/a>. Personally, I like the Question &#8220;Who is Esri and Jack Dangermond&#8221; the most. FYI, Procedural customers: Jack is one of the most interesting personalities I have met and he has a memory for faces and names of several petabytes.<\/p>\n<p>I find it very interesting how Esri&#8217;s GeoDesign strategy and the CityEngine technology will merge.<\/p>\n<p>Addendum:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vector1media.com\/spatialsustain\/esri-adds-3d-design-tools-with-procedural-acquisition.html\" target=\"_blank\">Esri Adds 3D Design Tools with Procedural Acquisition\u00a0by Matt Ball<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"simple_likebuttons_container_small\">\r\n      <div class=\"simple_likebuttons_facebook\">\r\n        <div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n        <script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n          var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n          if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\r\n          js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n          js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n          fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n        }(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n        <div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=396\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-width=\"90\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    \r\n      <div class=\"simple_likebuttons_twitter simple_likebuttons_twitter_s\">\r\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=396\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    \r\n      <div class=\"simple_likebuttons_googleplus\">\r\n        <g:plusone size=\"medium\" count=\"false\" href=\"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=396\"><\/g:plusone>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    \r\n      <div class=\"simple_likebuttons_linkedin simple_likebuttons_linkedin_s\">\r\n        <script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=396\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    \r\n      <div class=\"simple_likebuttons_xing simple_likebuttons_xing_s\">\r\n        <script data-url=\"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=396\" data-lang=\"de\" data-counter=\"right\" type=\"XING\/Share\"><\/script>\r\n        <script>\r\n          ;(function(d, s) {\r\n            var x = d.createElement(s),\r\n              s = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n            x.src ='https:\/\/www.xing-share.com\/js\/external\/share.js';\r\n            s.parentNode.insertBefore(x, s);\r\n          })(document, 'script');\r\n        <\/script>\r\n      <\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 11, 2011, Esri has announced the acquisition of Procedural Inc, Zurich. Years after the nifty but discontinued attempts of the SketchUp 6 \/ ArcGIS 9.2 Plug-in, ESRI takes the gloves off and finally makes a true jump into 3D cities modeling, planning and design. And finally GIS meets Games Design and vice versa. 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