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Show HN: three-geo – Geographic visualization with three.js
- tazard 8y agoThis is very cool. My first thought would be mapping hiking/backcountry trails. Thanks for sharing.
- jdevel 8y agoThanks! Actually, we initially started this project with a GPX data visualization app in mind. Open Street Map achieves this well in 2D maps, and we are very interested in a 3D version. As you can try in the example/geo-viewer, manual 3D line marking is already supported. Soon, we definitely want to add the GPX data loading/displaying feature useful to hikers, mountaineers, drone users, etc.
- Waterluvian 8y agoThree is a fantastic tool for some basic geoviz. If you are looking for more, be aware of LeafletJS and OpenLayers.
- jdevel 8y agoThanks for information from a geoviz perspective!! In the accompanying demo app (example/geo-viewer), we are using LeafletJS for the terrain area selection UI and also for displaying a moving camera (which can also be regarded as a drone ;)) in the global geo coordinate system. We found Leaflet is so valuable. Really excited to know about OpenLayers. We plan to spin off example/geo-viewer as the base of a new standalone 3D GIS app (which is also OSS). In this new app, we want to implement/accumulate common GIS features and push the limit of browser-based GIS applications. OpenLayers seems perfect for an abstraction module for tile fetching, layer interactions, etc. It looks so matured and supporting so many tile layer service providers.