{"id":19935,"date":"2018-08-21T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=19935"},"modified":"2023-11-14T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:03:51","slug":"ihbc-cpd-boost-who-owns-the-space-under-cities-the-guardian-on-mapping-the-earth-beneath-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=19935","title":{"rendered":"IHBC CPD Boost: Who owns the space under cities? The Guardian on \u2018mapping the earth beneath us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The <em>Guardian<\/em> has reported on how the space under cities is getting busier \u2013 from transport excavations to billionaire\u2019s mega-basements \u2013 and asks \u2018how to keep track of what\u2019s down there?\u2019<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Guardian<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026In London, a city with 150 years of trenching, digging and boring to its name, the chaos is reaching new depths. According to Newcastle University\u2019s Global Urban Research Unit, more than 4,600 basements have been granted planning permission in the last decade \u2013 in just seven of London\u2019s 32 boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>The space under London is now getting so busy that the Ordnance Survey, Future Cities Catapult and the British Geological Survey have joined forces to create a new initiative called Project Iceberg, which will attempt to aggregate cities\u2019 subterranean data. In London it will include transport tunnel information, geological records and maps of 1.5m km (0.9m miles) of underground utilities and four million kilometres of telecommunications lines\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Subterranean scholar Dr Marilu Melo of the University of Sydney explains that not all countries behave this way. In Mexico, for example, \u2018property rights are effectively superficial, they do not extend volumetrically into the earth,\u2019 she says\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 \u2018Land prices tend to force private construction downwards, especially where there are planning limits on upward expansion,\u2019 says the Ordnance Survey\u2019s Rollo Home.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Enter Project Iceberg. The goal is to serve as a framework for data on all of these underground elements, from which a comprehensive visualisation can be built. The resulting map would need to be an all-inclusive spatial database, but how volumetric cartography might look is not yet imagined. It could perhaps be something like Bruno Imbrizi\u2019s real-time 3D tube map that went viral in 2013. Or the framework could feed an augmented reality engine, so that aiming a phone camera at the ground would reveal what is underneath\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2018\/jul\/10\/who-owns-the-space-under-cities-the-attempt-to-map-the-ground-beneath-our-feet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has reported on how the space under cities is getting busier \u2013 from transport excavations to billionaire\u2019s mega-basements \u2013 and asks \u2018how to keep track of what\u2019s down there?\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38120,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions\/38120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}