Furthermore, we also suggested in our mission statment that the model had the potential to garner further support for future VRML courses at IUP, particularly from the administration.  The administration has certainly expressed an interest in the project thus far; with the exceptional amount of effort and detail that has been put into modeling the interior of the President's house, we feel that our public presentation will only increase such interest.

On a less direct, but also valuable note, IUP's cartographer Ronald Wilson had previously expressed an interest in modeling the IUP campus in its entirety; it is to be hoped that the interest already shown in this project will garner enthusiasm for his proposal.

We also feel that the project has value for future VRML designers--the opportunity to learn from our mistakes, as it were.  Foremost, future developers should be aware that the USGS 7.5 minute topographical survey maps are not an adequate basis for creating a working elevation grid.  While these maps do provide terrain data, this data is not detailed enough to provide landscape suitable for modeling campuses, towns, buildings, etc.

Future developers might also learn from our initial lack of understanding with regard to just how time consuming many aspects of VRML modeling can be..  Ideally they will be able to better plan for necessary time expenditures, and not create such an overly-ambitious time table.