[GRASS-user] 360 degree view from a given point

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

how to force nviz to work in batchprocess even without Xserver to be started?

another answare could be: porting the old d.3d to 6.x

jachym

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:43:30PM +0100, Ludwig Max Brinckmann wrote:
> Just browsing through the web I found the following new product
> http://www.viewranger.com/vrproductinfo.php, which is a mobile phone map
> (nothing new here), but it also offers
> '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.
> (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)
> 
> I have a webmap (www.yunnanexplorer.com/map), 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.
> 
> 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.
> 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?
> 
> Ludwig

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