Town Square, Anywhere
Over the past couple of years, and especially after 9-11, there has
been an increasing demand for realistic urban environments to support
interactive, virtual reality training, mission rehearsal, equipment
development, and a variety of other requirements.
The majority of the Virtual Cities that have been built for the
Virtual Emergency Response Training System program have been actual
cities constructed from the geographic information system (GIS) data
provided by the cities. The cities, and our DoD sponsor have put
restrictions on providing these cities for other than "official
Town Square was constructed using the same procedures as used for the "Virtual Cities" but we have inserted generic buildings, stylized additions, and representative artifacts. It is not a real place, but it is a very realistic rendering of a portion of an urban city. Our DoD sponsor has approved the release of this database as "Distribution A, Unlimited", to support the training and developmental efforts both in the military, the civilian first response, and civilian developmental communities.