[OpenLayers-Users] tilted perspective

[Wally Atkins]

NASA World Wind has a port for mobile devices ... Not sure that is what you
are looking for but I thought I would toss it out there.


On Apr 7, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Steve Nelson <snelson at webapper.com> wrote:

Apparently my laptop and iphone are too weak to view that link. I'm
primarily looking for a 3d solution that will work on a phone.

What's on that link?

Steve


On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>wrote:

>  Funny, I was going to send you the same link.
>
>  This on in particular caught my eye:
>
>  *http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/webgl/kinect/*
>
>  bobb
>
>
>
>
> >>> Steve Nelson <snelson at webapper.com> wrote:
>
> I haven't even looked into where this would sit in the OpenLayers.js file.
> Have you seen three.js? There are some pretty slick things with that, I
> know exactly squat about it
>
>
>   http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/
>
>
>   This example could prove useful. Imagine if all the OL tiles were the
> squares in the grid.
>
>
> http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/examples/webgl_interactive_voxelpainter.html
>
>
>   Steve
>
>   On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Bob Basques <
> Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
>
>>  Steve,
>>
>>
>>  You would need to wrap the mapviewer somehow inside of the perspective
>> canvas. My business need would be to explode the layers vertically with
>> labels for each layer in the stack. But as I said earlier, the next pieces
>> to add would be real 3D. Also, how to handle Zindex aspects (for real), and
>> not just for stacking.
>>
>>
>>  Lastly, I've wanted to have labels that are always normal to view for a
>> good many years, which dictates lablling from within the browser instead of
>> using a server side process. you could roate around something in 3D and the
>> labels would remain normal to the viewer view and alway be level and
>> readable, etc.
>>
>>
>>  bobb
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >>> Steve Nelson <snelson at webapper.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was thinking the thing to start with is try and get a 3d perspective on
>> a single tile using CSS 3d transformations. Look at the 3D box on this
>> page:
>>
>>
>>   http://24ways.org/2010/intro-to-css-3d-transforms
>>
>>
>>   If we could get a tile to look like the "6" side, we'd be one step
>> closer.
>>
>>
>>   Steve
>>
>>   On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Bob Basques <
>> Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
>>
>>>  Steve,
>>>
>>>
>>>  I've thought about this myself (more from inside of GeoMoose however,
>>> which is built on top of OpenLayers). Same idea though. I keep going back
>>> to the notion that this leads to wanting a real 3D environment to visualize
>>> things though. I've done some experimenting with HTML5/Canvas and such, and
>>> the browsers are fully capable (except IE it seems) to render full on 3D.
>>>
>>>
>>>  I would be interested in this if/as it progresses.
>>>
>>>
>>>  bobb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >>> Steve Nelson <snelson at webapper.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone attempted trying to figure out what it would take to tilt
>>> open layers maps? Giving it a 3d perspective like in Google earth?
>>>
>>>
>>>   Steve
>>>
>>
>>
>
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