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

[Ludwig Max Brinckmann]

Just had a quick look through the old manual pages, so I guess it might do
the trick.
Does anybody have an idea how much porting effort is involved? What is the
reason it is not maintained?


On 7/2/06, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at centrum.cz> wrote:
>
> 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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