<div>Just browsing through the web I found the following new product</div>
<div><a href="http://www.viewranger.com/vrproductinfo.php">http://www.viewranger.com/vrproductinfo.php</a>, which is a mobile phone map (nothing new here), but it also offers </div>
<div>'Unique 3D Panoramic Viewpoint Maps show you what you see!', which is basically an annotated 360degree view of the surroundings of a given point, where the current location is transmitted from a GPS to the phone.</div>
<div>(I have no affiliation with this product whatsoever, and I have never tried it: I would wonder how they would know which direction a user is facing at a given moment, the GPS will not give it - for most parts of England it is also easy to implement: just return a flat horizon ;-) I did think however, it is quite an inspired application)
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<div>I have a webmap (<a href="http://www.yunnanexplorer.com/map">www.yunnanexplorer.com/map</a>), that I would like to enhance with the option of clicking a point and then getting a full 360 degree view from this point and surface elevation, a bit like 360 degree cameras to display with the map.
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<div>I have seen the recent GRASS integration with a python CGI script, so that would be a starting point to generate the image from a client webbrowser.</div>
<div>I have played a bit with NVIZ in the past, but my question to the grass experts is: what would be the best way to do this in GRASS?</div>
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<div>Ludwig</div>
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