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:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://24ways.org/2010/intro-to-css-3d-transforms">http://24ways.org/2010/intro-to-css-3d-transforms</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>If we could get a tile to look like the "6" side, we'd be one step closer.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Bob Basques <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us">Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">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.</font> </p>
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>>> Steve Nelson <<a href="mailto:snelson@webapper.com" target="_blank">snelson@webapper.com</a>> wrote:<br> </p>
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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? </p>
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