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Garsdale Design designated as an Esri ‘Release Ready Specialty’ Partner. 

Thursday the 9th of January 2020

Garsdale Design has become the first EsriUK partner to be recognised as ‘Release Ready’.  Being part of the ‘Release Ready Speciality’ designation recognises Garsdale Design’s unique skills and commitment to Esri CityEngine and the wider Esri platform.   This designation is only awarded to those Esri business partners who can prove their expertise in adoption and promotion of the latest Esri technology.  

“We are pleased that Garsdale Design are the first partner in the UK to be awarded the ‘release ready’ partner status.  This award recognises their continued commitment to developing Esri-Centric client propositions, as well as their readiness to install, configure and train on ESRI CityEngine (and the wider platform). Congratulations to Elliot and his team.”

Heather Fletcher, Head of Partners and Alliances, EsriUK

The Release Ready Speciality is assessed yearly to ensure that Partners are adopting the latest Esri technology on a consistent basis as well as:

  • Demonstrating a repeatable approach for migrating their offerings
  • Helping customers implement the latest release
  • Ensuring staff are trained and able to support the latest release
  • Offer defined solutions, services, or content that use the latest ArcGIS capabilities
  • Promote Release Ready offerings
  • Share customer successes

“As many people might know, Garsdale Design is a unique specialist consultancy, especially when it comes to Esri CityEngine and 3D GIS.  We are proud to have received this recognition from Esri as we are always striving to offer the best advice and services for our clients unique and varied requirements.”

Elliot Hartley Managing Director, Garsdale Design

Garsdale Design has worked with Esri CityEngine professionally for over a decade now.  We were the first UK Chartered Architecture practice to recognise the power of CityEngine for use in 3D geodesign related projects.   We have used CityEngine for 3D urban plans, urban scenario modelling with metrics, and modelling existing urban environments with a diverse range clients and projects (CityEngine Creates New Solutions for Historic Cities https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcnews/cityengine-creates-new-solutions-for-historic-cities/). 

In 2013 we started providing the first worldwide training service for Esri CityEngine (Succeed With 3D: An Emboldened Vision of Downtown Miami https://medium.com/@CyberCity3D/succeed-with-3d-an-emboldened-vision-of-downtown-miami-141ef5650b18) and have trained a very broad range of organisations in the public and private sector from the AEC, to military, and the entertainment industries.  Our recent successful collaboration with Downtown Detroit Partnership with consultancy services and knowledge transfer is just one of many successful projects we have worked on (Using 3D to Entice Urban Redevelopment https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcuser/3d-planning/).

In 2017 we became the first 3D building data and Esri CityEngine rule file provider on Esri’s ArcGIS Marketplace.  Our work creating CityEngine rule libraries for a range of clients has helped smooth 3D workflows for a number of clients.

Recent work has also seen us win awards for our 3D cartography using the Esri platform and tools such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online and the Esri JavaScript API ( Esri UC Map Gallery (3rd place in 3D Map and Most Innovative) https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/events/uc/get-involved/map-gallery-results).  Our work has also appeared in Esri publications such as the MapBook (Greater London in 3D https://www.esri.com/en-us/esri-map-book/maps#/details/17/6) as well as ArcNews (Geodesign Tackles big problems https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcnews/geodesign-tackles-big-problems-brings-gis-into-the-design-fields/) and ArcUser. We have also had articles appear in professional publications on topics of 3D modelling (Ready (finally) for 3D https://www.xyht.com/magazine/magazine-magazine/xyht-december-2015/), geodesign, and digitaltwins (Digital twin ambitions: How to catch up with the future https://www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/publications/bim-today-june-2019/57902/).

Our continued 6-year friendship with our partners Esri Inc, EsriUK, GISTEC, and CyberCity3D have been focused on delivering 3D consultancy, training, and 3D data services to our clients worldwide on the Esri platform.   Our newer partners Lancaster University and Fastr Property are allowing us to keep current and explore new technologies and workflows for commercial and academic uses.

 

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3D to aid Redevelopment in Detroit

It’s always nice to be able to talk about some of our work. Whilst we have a large amount of domestic/local architectural work within the Sedbergh and Yorkshire Dales area we have an international side of our business that specialises in not just urban planning but also 3D geospatial, training, consultancy, data, and application development (led by Elliot Hartley).

What does that mean? Well people who need to plan a city’s development need to understand context they need to understand how new development may affect a skyline or a view. That’s where 3D modelling comes in, we use a combination of 3D building models captured from stereo aerial or satellite imagery to provide contextual existing building models. Then we will combine that with CAD or procedural models (from Esri CityEngine) to show possible future developments.

You can view the web application here.

Using the Esri platform we can then create a range of storymaps or web applications for stakeholder engagement. A good example of some of this work is the a project where we provided services and knowledge transfer to the Downtown Detroit Partnership, a body that represents the residents/businesses within Downtown Detroit.

DDP convenes business, philanthropic and government partners to ensure that efforts in the creation of a vibrant urban core for Detroit are balanced and all perspectives are considered.

Downtown Detroit Partnerhsip, – Our Mission

Our partners CyberCity3D and Esri Inc wrote up about this work for ArcUser a quarterly publication produced for Esri software users. You can read it here.

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3D GIS & CityEngine Webinar 2019

EsriUK and Garsdale Design Limited will be co-hosting a webinar on 3DGIS on Thursday the 7th of March. Elliot Hartley will be giving a demo of Esri CityEngine showing a workflow that imports 2D GIS data and creates 3D models for use in ArcGIS Pro, a 3D Printer, a web scene, and Unreal Studio.

You can register for the webinar here (now below)

This page will also be used to host the resources that are associated with the CityEngine portion of the demo.

How about exploring our Birmingham Photobooth Web application? Feel free to share/tweet your photo!

Or maybe you prefer a sketchy style on a blackboard or blueprint paper?

Coming Soon (after Webinar)

Did you know?

We have worked with governments and organisations to create or help them create 3D mapping and web applications for the Esri platform! For example:

We were the first to conduct Esri CityEngine training worldwide, and now also provide a range of 3D GIS & CityEngine related knowledge transfer services, training, as well as consultancy.

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Esri CityEngine training for Professionals 14th-15th January 2019 (Aylesbury)

We are holding a 2-day Esri CityEngine training course at EsriUK’s head office in Aylesbury on the 14th and 15th January 2019.   There are spaces still available on this course! 

Geodesign and analysis in 3D

THE COURSE

Garsdale Design Limited is the official EsriUK instructor for Esri CityEngine and advanced procedural 3D modeller ideal for those wishing to turn their 2D GIS data into 3D urban models for analysis or visualisation.

The 2-day Esri CityEngine training course is more than just an introduction to CityEngine (version 2018.1), not only is this a hands-on practical course it will teach you some CGA theory and useful tools such as the amazing viewshed tool.

The course will also give you a more advanced understanding of the inner workings of Esri CityEngine.  Time is also included to focus on trainees real-world workflows and data.

Using CityEngine you will learn how to author a web scene from 2D and 3D data for visualising or analysing in other products.

This course will familiarise the user with the CityEngine interface and some workflows. You will explore how CityEngine can ‘3D enable’ your data, to make compelling and interactive 3D web viewable models and how it can fit in to other pipelines and workflows.

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AUDIENCE 

Anyone interested in learning more than just the basics of CityEngine, the attendee needs to have some knowledge of 3D and GIS. It will be desirable for attendees to have some experience or prior knowledge of Esri CityEngine but not essential. Delegates ideally should also have some knowledge of the following, SketchUp, ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap, ArcGlobe and ArcScene) and ArcGISPro.

GOALS

  • Identify components of the CityEngine interface
  • CGA (rule file) theory and best practice
  • GIS workflows
  • Create a CityEngine workspace and project (and how to manage it)
  • Create a 3D Web Scene
  • Use existing 2D & 3D content
  • Analysis (viewdome etc) and reporting

INSTRUCTOR

Your instructor will be Elliot Hartley,  the Managing Director of Garsdale Design, and a 3D geodesign expert who is a pioneer in the use of Esri CityEngine for urban planning projects and 3D city and urban modelling.   Elliot has over 6 years of consultancy, training and real-world project based experience with Esri CityEngine.

Elliot has had more than 18 years working in the fields of GIS, planning, 3D urban modelling and geodesign. He has spent some of that time working as a Senior planner, as well as a Development Control officer within local authority planning Departments. Elliot’s academic career has seen him specialise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Durham University as well as Town and Country Planning from the University of West England.    As a renowned expert in 3D urban modelling Elliot has spoken and conducted workshops at many international events on topics of planning, 3D urban modelling and geodesign.  He is co-convenor of the 3D special interest group at the British Cartographic Society and also maintains a blog called GeoPlanIT which discusses CityEngine and geodesign projects

DETAILS

  • Price: Contact us at info@garsdaledesign.co.uk (discounted rates are available).
  • Venue: EsriUK Headquarters Aylesbury
  • Equipment:  EsriUK will supply appropriate hardware and software
  • Can’t make the date? Contact us directly, we have courses throughout the year.

You can book directly on the EsriUK website here

Contact us directly for more information on other options for training : info@garsdaledesign.co.uk 

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GISWORX 2018 & workshop “3D Geodesign with Esri CityEngine”

We’ll be attending this years GISWORX conference in Dubai.  We’re not only partners but good friends with GISTEC who are the official Esri Distributors in the United Arab Emirates.   

We’ll be represented this year by Elliot Hartley and have an exhibition stand (number 21).  He will be holding a workshop on the first day (8th May at 3:30pm in Nashwan Room) entitled “3D Geodesign with Esri CityEngine” (agenda will go live soon).

The workshop will introduce users to the world of 3D procedural modelling and demo some of the new features of Esri CityEngine.   We’ll explore the creation of geo-typical city models as well as it’s use within the urban iterative design process (geodesign).   We’ll also explore the use of existing GIS (2D and 3D data) and various analytical tools and methods as well as publishing.

If you can’t make it you can contact him directly on twitter or email us at info @ garsdaledesign.co.uk for discussions on 3D GIS, Geodesign and Esri CityEngine.

Elliot Hartley is also again on the awarding committee for the Excellence in GIS Implementation (EGI) Awards.

We hope to see you all there soon!

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Esri CityEngine training at Lancaster University 4-6th of June

We are holding a 3-day (third day optional) Esri CityEngine training event at Lancaster University (LICA Building) on Monday the 4th, Tuesday the 5th, and Wednesday the 6th of June 2018.  We have a few confirmed trainees and have spaces for more!  Primarily this is a bring your own device training event (with Esri CityEngine installed), but should you require, we can arrange equipment for you (subject to additional fee).

The Course

The 3-day 3DPathFinder is more than just an introduction to CityEngine (version 2017.1 and above), not only is this a hands-on practical course it will teach you some CGA theory and useful tools such as viewsheds. It will also give you a more advanced understanding of the inner workings of Esri CityEngine. Depending on the professional and academic backgrounds of the trainees the third day is focused on real-world workflows and data of attendees.

Using CityEngine you will learn how to author a web scene from 2D and 3D data for visualising or analysing in other products.

This course will familiarise the user with the CityEngine interface and some workflows. You will explore how CityEngine can ‘3D enable’ your data, to make compelling and interactive 3D web viewable models and how it can fit in to other pipelines and workflows.

 

Audience 

Anyone interested in learning more than just the basics of CityEngine, the attendee needs to have some knowledge of 3D and GIS. It will be desirable for attendees to have some experience or prior knowledge of Esri CityEngine but not essential. Delegates ideally should also have some knowledge of the following, SketchUp, ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap, ArcGlobe and ArcScene) and ArcGISPro.

Goals

  • Identify components of the CityEngine interface
  • CGA (rule file) theory and best practice
  • GIS workflows
  • Create a CityEngine workspace and project (and how to manage it)
  • Create a 3D Web Scene
  • Use existing 2D & 3D content
  • Analysis (viewdome etc) and reporting

 

Instructor

Your instructor will be Elliot Hartley,  the Managing Director of Garsdale Design, and a 3D geodesign expert who is known as an pioneer in the use of Esri CityEngine for urban planning projects and 3D city modelling.   Elliot has over 6 years of consultancy, training and real-world project based experience with Esri CityEngine.

Elliot has had more than 18 years working in the fields of GIS, planning, 3D urban modelling and geodesign. He has spent some of that time working as a Senior planner, as well as a Development Control officer within local authority planning Departments. Elliot’s academic career has seen him specialise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Durham University as well as Town and Country Planning from the University of West England.    As a renowned expert in 3D urban modelling Elliot has spoken and conducted workshops at many international events on topics of planning, 3D urban modelling and geodesign.  He is co-convenor of the 3D special interest group at the British Cartographic Society and also maintains a blog called GeoPlanIT which discusses CityEngine and geodesign projects

Details

Contact us for prices and details (you can message Elliot on twitter, or just a chat about training at another time if you can’t make it!  Alternatively we do training events through EsriUK as well down in Aylesbury, you contact here.

info@garsdaledesign.co.uk 

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GD3D® signs innovative data agreement with CyberCity3D™ ahead of launch on Esri ArcGIS Marketplace

PRESS RELEASE: GD3D®, the geospatial arm of Garsdale Design, is a leading 3D GIS consultancy based in Cumbria, United Kingdom. Today an agreement has been signed with CyberCity 3D Incorporated, a California 3D geospatial content company, to resell premium quality 3D building data as part of an affordable 3D streaming service on Esri’s ArcGIS Marketplace.

“We know of GD3D’s expertise in 3D GIS on the Esri platform, after seeing the outstanding work they did for us.  So, when they came to us with a plan to create a compelling 3D ‘Context as a Service’ for Esri users, we jumped on board.  As part of this new agreement and deeper partnership, we will also be looking to improve our current offering and develop further products with GD3D.” Kevin DeVito, Founder/CEO of CyberCity3D.

The GD3D® 3D streaming data service is the first of its kind on the ArcGIS Marketplace, enabling Esri users to consume 3D data via a web service in both Esri’s desktop software and online services.   By the beginning of February, the Company will begin offering over 100 cities to ArcGIS users based in the UK, USA and worldwide — priced individually as an annual subscription for organisations.

GD3D®’s core mission is to encourage users and organisations to explore 3D GIS workflows supported by their partners Esri UK and Esri Inc. This can embrace the amazing new capabilities of products like ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online’s 3D Web Scene Viewer, ArcGIS Earth and Esri CityEngine.

“We’re excited to be the first 3D streaming data provider on the ArcGIS Marketplace. CyberCity3D’s data is well suited to the Esri Platform for visualization and analysis.  Our 3D service is about providing a context for a client’s proposals or study areas. If they require ownership of the data for more detailed analysis, we can of course, sell them the specific areas they are interested in.” Elliot Hartley, Managing Director/CEO of GD3D. 

As well as offering a 3D data service, GD3D is the first to sell Rule Packages for use in ArcGIS Pro and Esri CityEngine on the ArcGIS Marketplace.  

data in the United Kingdom; this 3D building data is ideal for GIS use, whatever the platform. It can be delivered in a variety of different formats for use outside the geospatial context: for example, the gaming and the augmented/virtual reality industries.  We can also build further 3D data through the use of stereo or satellite imagery provided by the user or one of our aerial survey partners.

“CyberCity3D data is balanced nicely between simple clean and light geometries whilst maintaining incredible detail.   This makes it perfect for a range of uses from 3D analysis and geospatial visualisation to 3D web mapping.” Nicholas Duggan, Principal GeoSpatial Specialist at GD3D.

About

GD3D® is the new brand of Garsdale Design’s 3D data, training and consultancy service.  With offices in Sedbergh and Southampton, they are regarded as leading experts in the field of 3D GIS with an extensive background in Urban Planning and Architecture.  We offer a wide range of consultancy services as well as bespoke Esri CityEngine training.

CyberCity 3D, Inc. is a state-of-the-art 3D geospatial modeling company specializing in 3D GIS buildings.  Based in Southern California, the Company provides best-in-class information for the built environment. CyberCity 3D empowers your projects with up-to-six inch accurate 3D city models with nearly unlimited uses. Our 3D GIS models also provide invaluable attribute information to assist in urban planning and analysis, visualization, real estate, solar, rainwater, and sustainability.

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Adding an extra dimension: Workshops at the BCS/SoC Conference

On Wednesday and Thursday the 6th and 7th of September Garsdale Design’s Nicholas Duggan and Elliot Hartley will be conducting a workshop at the BCS/SoC Conference in Durham.

 

Workshop 1 – Nicholas Duggan – Wednesday 12:00 – 13:00

The aim of this workshop is to use the ESRI Arcgis Pro software to change Ordnance Survey building footprints in to extruded buildings which can be used for 3D representation in many software such as QGIS, Mapbox, ESRI Web scenes, QGIS2threejs and others.

Using only free, open source data we will take you through, step by step, the process to create your own 3D data which you can use as a streaming service. Along the way, we will discuss vertical datum, transformations and if you ask nicely, maybe how it can all be done in open source software too.

This will be a live workshop and to make the most of it you will need to have a computer with ArcGIS Pro and 3D analyst (paid or trial). To take part in the data streaming section, you will need to have an organisation account with ESRI. If you don’t these, you are still welcome to see me run through it live.

  • ArcGIS Pro
  • 3D Analyst Extension
  • ArcGIS Online account this can be the public free version or organisation account, however to use our data service you need an organisation account (paid or trial)

 

Workshop 2 – Elliot Hartley – Thursday 10:30 – 11:30

In this workshop we will introduce you to a technique to create 3D models from 2D GIS data using a procedural modelling tool,  We will then show you how to publish the models online within the context of our new 3D basemaps which Nicholas presented on in workshop 1.

We will use Esri CityEngine, a procedural 3D modelling tool, to take your 2D GIS data (with attribution) from simple extrusions to advanced symbology or real designs with associated dynamic metrics.

We’ll choose a site and create at least two 3D models one for visualisation and one for reporting back metrics like floor space.   Once completed we will show you how to publish it from CityEngine on to ArcGIS Online and use it with the context of our 3D basemapping. 

This will be a live demo but we encourage attendees to follow with us on your own laptops.    We will provide any data required, however, you will need access to some software.  This needs to access and installed prior to the workshop.

  • Esri CityEngine (trial or paid)
  • ArcGIS Online account this can be the public free version or organisation account, however to use our data service you need an organisation account (paid or trial).
  • ArcGIS Pro (optional)

Please contact us if you need assistance.

info [at] garsdaledesign.co.uk

@dragons8mycat

@elliothartley

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Successful GISWORX Conference

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GISTEC’s annual GISWORX conference was again held at the Al Bustan Rotana hotel in Dubai on the 19th – 21st April.  Garsdale Design had a booth and met with a wide variety of professionals interested in ‘kick starting’ their 3D GIS.   As 3D GIS specialist on the Esri platform Garsdale Design has a unique insight into the workflows and data requirements of projects not just in the Middle East but worldwide.

Garsdale Design was instrumental in bringing a full ‘3D for Everyone’ track to the conference this year.  Elliot Hartley and Kiran Kumar from GISTEC co-hosted the session on the first day that saw many interesting presentations.  Elliot presented on 3D solutions for the world and a small session on Esri CityEngine entitled ‘Models and applications for the city of tomorrow’.DSCN0400

We conducted two workshops at this years event Nicholas Duggan our Geospatial Specialist presented on the power of using ArcGISPro (Esri’s newest 64bit GIS software) entitled ‘Adding the Extra Dimension’ to assess aspects of a fictional wind farm development.

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Elliot Hartley conducted an Esri CityEngine introduction workshop allowing attendees to actually use CityEngine and see the power of procedural modelling in action.

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As well as being on the EGI awards committee Elliot Hartley also hosted the awards ceremony on the evening of the 20th.   It was here that the amazing work of a variety of organisations was recognised.

 

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