Sunday, August 10, 2008

Britain From Above

Starting today, the BBC's Andrew Marr presents a major new series, "Britain From Above", and data from KeepMoving has been used to drive some of the impressive animations.

The series is an epic journey revealing the secrets, patterns and hidden rhythms of our lives from a striking new perspective. Andrew Marr reveals how each and every one of us is interconnecting, making Britain what it is today.

Britain looks very different from the skies; from a bird's eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways.

KeepMoving provided data to 422 South, the visual effects company working with Lion TV, who produced the series of programmes for the BBC.

At the request of the programme makers, KeepMoving provided samples of GPS Floating Vehicle Data (GFVD), anonymously and passively collected from freight vehicles traversing the UK road network. GFVD is just one of the types of data collected, analysed and published by ITIS' TrafficScience software platform.



If you're in the UK, you can see the traces of freight vehicles in the animation during this clip.

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