3D visualisation of Sanborn Maps for Charlottesville, VA

The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are a great source of information on the history of urban development in the US. As part of the Spatial Data Management and Manipulation module of their BSc in Geographical Information Systems at Kingston University students created a geodatase of landuse and building height for part of Charlottesville, Vaginia. To visualise database contents students created 3D visualisations in ArcScene. This one was created by Alvin Ancindor, Katso Matchediso, Amy Pritchard and Brian Setswamorago from the 1920 Sanborn maps. While coverage is incomplete, it remains impressive.