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osgEarth :: Terrain on Demand

osgEarth is a C++ terrain rendering toolkit. Think of it as a free, open source, open standards-compliant foundation for an application like Google Earth. It’s easy to use, too. Just create a simple XML file, point it at your imagery, elevation, and vector data, and go! osgEarth supports all kinds of data and comes with lots of examples to help you get up and running quickly and easily.

Here’s a sampling of the many things you can do with osgEarth:

• Create terrain models – either offline, or dynamically at run-time
• Load whole-earth terrains without writing any code
• Visualize OGC-compliant web mapping data
• Combine multiple imagery, elevation, and vector data sources on the fly
• Set up map tile caches to maximize performance
• Layer imagery to produce high-resolution insets
• Adjust layer opacity in real time
• Drape vector (GIS) data on the terrain
• Reproject data among different coordinate reference systems
• Place external models on the terrain with lat/long coordinates

osgEarth is a trusted solution that is used in several commercial and open source products.

ReadyMap^®

ReadyMap is a complete suite of tools for publishing and viewing maps – in 2D or 3D – as part of your web, mobile, or desktop applications.

The ReadyMap family consists of:

• ReadyMap SDK – a free, open source JavaScript SDK for embedding web maps in an HTML5 application (no plugin required)
• ReadyMap Cloud – a hosted map server for deploying 2D and 3D maps in the cloud
• ReadyMap Appliance – a hardware map server solution for internal and private networks

Please visit the main ReadyMap site for details and examples.

 

 

GeoNerdsDC Presentation 2011-08-02 from Glenn Waldron  - [http://pelicanmapping.com/?paged=3]

 

http://osgearth.org/

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osgEarth - Terrain On Demand

osgEarth is a C++ terrain rendering toolkit. Just create a simple XML file, point it at your imagery, elevation, and vector data, load it into your favorite OpenSceneGraph application, and go! osgEarth supports all kinds of data and comes with lots of examples to help you get up and running quickly and easily.

• Installation - Git access, build instructions, and pre-built binaries
• Documentation - HOW-TOs, references, and API documentation
• Community - Discussion, support, and feature requests
• Gallery - Pretty pictures of datasets generated using osgEarth
• About - Information of the project, licensing, and its authors

Easy to use

How easy is it to render terrain with osgEarth?

 osgviewer gdal_tiff.earth

Things you can do

osgEarth makes is easy to deploy scalable terrain models:

• Create terrain models - either offline, or dynamically at run-time
• Load whole-earth terrains without writing any code
• Visualize OGC-compliant web mapping data
• Combine multiple imagery, elevation, and vector data sources on the fly
• Set up map tile caches to maximize performance
• Layer imagery to produce high-resolution insets
• Adjust layer opacity in real time
• Drape vector (GIS) data on the terrain
• Reproject data among different coordinate reference systems
• Place external models on the terrain with lat/long coordinates
• Incorporate new data into existing VPB databases (without rebuilding them)

Things you can see

• GeoTIFF imagery and DEM files (plus lots of other formats)
• Vector data like ESRI shapefiles
• OGC-compliant web mapping data (like WMS)
• GIS layers published with MapServer or ESRI ArcGIS Server
• Online maps like OpenStreetMap, ArcGIS Online, or NASA OnEarth