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The R GIS ecosystem has seen great strides recently! I've just been working on one part of it: 3D visualization and computational hillshading/raytracing. And t
by tylermw 6y ago
The R GIS ecosystem has seen great strides recently! I've just been working on one part of it: 3D visualization and computational hillshading/raytracing.
And that video looks like a great resource--I'll put it on my watch list.
- kylebarron 6y agoYou should check out Mapdeck [0]. It's R bindings to deck.gl, a JS 2D/3D geo-visualization package that I've been contributing to. As of version 8.1, there's a TerrainLayer [1] to render an interactive map with a 3D terrain mesh. [0]: https://github.com/SymbolixAU/mapdeck https://github.com/SymbolixAU/mapdeck [1]: https://deck.gl/#/documentation/deckgl-api-reference/layers/terrain-layer https://deck.gl/#/documentation/deckgl-api-reference/layers/...