[GRASS-user] NEWBIE: Time required to develop Google Earth-like GIS App??

[Tyler Mitchell]

Consider these three applications:
-http://ossim.org - has a package called ossimPlanet (aka osgPlanet)
-http://punt.sourceforge.net/new_svn/index.html or its relative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_World_Wind
-http://vterrain.org/Implementation/index.html - for more 'local' scenes, not full global apps.

Hope those tips help,
Tyler

----- Original Message -----
From: pnpazand at rockwellcollins.com
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:32 am
Subject: [GRASS-user] NEWBIE: Time required to develop Google Earth-like GIS App??

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am evaluating alternative GIS tools for a research project. The 
> startingpoint for
> our research requires a Google Earth like interface - pan, tilt, 
> zoom on
> raster images,
> annotation creation, and data layers.
> 
> >From looking thru the website it is difficult to immediately tell 
> if all of
> this is available
> with GRASS "out of the box" -- with or without using NVIS or QGIS.
> 
> Beyond this, a secondary capability I am looking for is a 4D feature,
> allowing the user
> to move a time slider (or hit a "play" button) to view raster 
> imagery (and
> annotations)
> collected over time.  I have used KML/Google Earth to do this at 
> least with
> annotations,
> and it seems to work  well -- that said, Google Earth is not an open
> system.
> 
> Any information or guidance would be most appreciated.
> 
> Paul
> 
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