From urban landscape to information landscape: Digital Tainan as an example

Urban landscape is an important visual form to reflect the characteristics of a city. This paper attempts, first, to transform the urban landscape into information landscape to reveal the city characters; secondly, to build a web-based system to navigate the 3D city model; and thirdly, to create the scene-based scenarios and role-play interface for simulating the urban life. The Digital Tainan project is presented for demonstration and discussion.