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Pirmin,<br>
Great documentation, thank you.<br>
I've added a few suggestions in italics below.<br>
Ideally we can get your documentation updates by tomorrow (when we
built a release for User Acceptance Test), otherwise over this coming
week is fine.<br>
<br>
<h1>osgEarth<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part1.08050004.05090501@gmail.com"
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<h2>Terrain rendering toolkit<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part2.05010306.09040504@gmail.com"
title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>osgEarth is a scalable terrain rendering toolkit for <a
class="reference external" href="http://www.openscenegraph.org/">OpenSceneGraph</a>
(OSG), an open source, high performance, 3D graphics toolkit. Just
create a simple XML file, point it at your imagery, elevation, and
vector data, load it into your favorite OSG 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.<br>
<i>Cameron: Do users need to write the XML file by hand (which is scary
to users)? If they can create the XML using a GUI, then mention that,
and probably call the XML file a "configuration file".<br>
Cameron: I suggest writing a paragraph here explaining what terrain
modelling is, and how it is used. Note that many users of the liveDVD
won't know what terrain modelling is - their GIS experience being
limited to using Google Maps.</i><br>
</p>
<div class="section" id="core-features">
<h3>Core Features<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part3.01000407.08080402@gmail.com"
title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>osgEarth makes is easy to deploy scalable terrain models:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Create terrain models - either offline, or dynamically at run-time</li>
<li>Load whole-earth terrains without writing any code</li>
<li>Layer imagery to produce high-resolution insets</li>
<li>Combine multiple imagery, elevation, and vector data sources on
the fly</li>
<li>Set up map tile caches to maximize performance</li>
<li>Adjust layer opacity for multi-texturing effects</li>
</ul>
<p>But osgEarth does more than just render terrain:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Drape vector (GIS) data on the terrain</li>
<li>Reproject data among different coordinate reference systems</li>
<li>Place external models on the terrain with lat/long coordinates</li>
<li>Do fast intersection testing</li>
<li>Incorporate new data into existing VPB databases (without
rebuilding them)</li>
<li><i>Cameron: Please expand the acronym "VPB"</i><br>
</li>
<li>Access terrain tiles directly for non-visual processes</li>
</ul>
<p>Things you can see:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>GeoTIFF imagery and DEM files (plus lots of other formats)</li>
<li>Vector data like ESRI shapefiles</li>
<li>OGC-compliant web mapping data (like <a
class="reference external" href="http://www.opengeospatial.org">WMS</a>)</li>
<li><i>Cameron: What other OGC layers can you see? WFS? WCS? Please
list them as well.</i><br>
</li>
<li>GIS layers published with <a class="reference external"
href="http://mapserver.org">MapServer</a> or <a
class="reference external"
href="http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisserver/">ESRI ArcGIS
Server</a></li>
<li>Online maps like <a class="reference external"
href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a>, <a
class="reference external"
href="http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices/">ArcGIS Online</a>,
or <a class="reference external" href="http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov">NASA
OnEarth</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="details">
<h3>Details<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part4.05020305.01010806@gmail.com"
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<p><strong>Website:</strong> <a class="reference external"
href="http://osgearth.org/">http://osgearth.org/</a></p>
<p><strong>Licence:</strong> GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)</p>
<p><strong>Software Version:</strong> 1.3</p>
<p><strong>Supported Platforms:</strong> Linux, Mac, Windows</p>
<p><strong>API Interfaces:</strong> C++</p>
<p><strong>Commercial Support:</strong> <a class="reference external"
href="http://osgearth.org/#ProfessionalServices">http://osgearth.org/#ProfessionalServices</a></p>
</div>
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Cameron Shorter
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