[mapserver-users] 3D display of data

[Benoît Andrieu]

Hi !

Then, as Brent said, you should take a look at gdaldem.

http://www.gdal.org/gdaldem.html
Some pictures : http://research.dmsolutions.ca/?p=350

Regards,
Benoît Andrieu

Le 19/03/2010 18:13, Kishore Reddy a écrit :
> What I mean to say, with the given appropriate form of data (DEM or
> DTM or whatever) we can not do relief shading (perspective viewing of
> terrain - to be more specific with the defined aspect ratio, slope and
> direction of light source) using maservers mapengine.
>
> So my question is whether I can hook any 3D rendering engines /
> drivers (designed for the geodatabases)  into the mapengine so that
> relief shading could be accomplished?
>
> Hope I am clear now.
>
> --
> Kishore
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Benoît Andrieu<bea at ixsea.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi !
>>
>>      
>>> - perspective viewing of terrain (mapserver can't do this)
>>>        
>> I don't totally agree with this. ;)
>> I have been able to use mapserver with WorldWind Java in order to display a
>> raster layer on terrain.
>> And both (raster and terrain) were served by mapserver.
>>
>> What, I think, is not possible (and perhaps what you mean) is to have
>> mapserver render the terrain model given a custom viewpoint and serve the
>> result to openlayers.
>> I think there were some discussion about this some times ago...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Benoît Andrieu
>>
>> Le 19/03/2010 15:28, Brent Fraser a écrit :
>>      
>>> Kishore,
>>>
>>>   Can you be more specific?  Did you mean display of:
>>>
>>> - contours (isolines of height with labels)
>>> - shaded terrain (see GDAL's gdal_dem utility to create)
>>> - perspective viewing of terrain (mapserver can't do this)
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Brent Fraser
>>>
>>> Kishore Reddy wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have built a website which shows geographic data in 2D. The
>>>> following is the configuration used for the website
>>>>
>>>> MapServer
>>>> Postgresql - Data is stored with accordance with the OpenGeo standards.
>>>> OpenLayers
>>>> Php
>>>>
>>>> But the website is intended for the rural community. So I thought of
>>>> displaying the data in 3D using MapServer.
>>>> So can anyone please give some references?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kishore
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