at a glance

Presented by the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, the study Cartografia histórica e navegação virtual do Centro do Rio de Janeiro,(historical cartography and viryaul navigation of rio de janeiro center), by Vanessa F. Godoy, alessandra F. G. da Silva and Paulo Márcio L. de Menezes, explains how downtown Rio de Janeiro became the major structural and urban planning center at the end of the first half of the century XIX - at that time the city took its dominant role in political and commercial activities, with the increase of port activities and urban improvements, resulting from government actions such as opening and maintenance of roads, clearing of hills, grounds, building palaces and monuments.

the goal of the study is using the collection of historical maps from the downtown into a model of desktop virtual reality (non-immersive) that allows viewing progress on the mapping of the urban development in an interactive manner,  allowing readers to navigate historical sites at different times.