[Gdal-dev] Re: [GRASSLIST:1184] Re: creating a desktop GIS application using GRASS

[Ben Discoe]

Hamish and Gustavo,

As an alternative to linking Grass with Flightgear, might i recommend
the VTP software.  It is also free and Free, can import any kind of
geospatial data, and has already been used to do realtime visualization
of biogeography.  It may still be slightly "clunky and daunting", but
less so because GRASS is not required.

-Ben
http://vterrain.org/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hamish
> 
> > Suggestion: link GRASS to FlightGear.  Use GRASS to create 
> > and analyse geographic data, then get FlightGear and *FLY*
> > over your info.  When I told this to some people who work in
> > biogeography, that I wanted to fly over my fish distribution
> > data, they went crazy, they want that. They want to have the
> > ecosystems mapped in 3d and move fly around them.

> Has anyone out there actually managed to get this to work?
> 
> It seems a bit clunky & daunting; GRASS (maybe d.m or d.dm) 
> would make a great front end for putting the scenery together.
> 
> First step is to get a GRASS raster into something TerraGear's
> "raw2ascii" can read.
> 
> [...]
> ps - this is all (theoretically:) possible because of free software.