OpenStreetMap
Hi,
I got in contact to some devs coding on 3D OSM stuff. So I created a page getting all together.
Now hopefully we can step forward and think about how to provide detailed 3D models to OSM:
osm.wiki/wiki/3D_Development/Modelling
Feel free to join the discussion at the wiki!
Discussion
Comment from Edward_Lowe on 9 February 2011 at 21:34
Would they be 2.5D models because there would be no volumetric measurement in these models or could a volumetric model be built in?
Comment from Chaos99 on 10 February 2011 at 09:38
[just posted this on the wiki discussion page]
Thumbs Up from me. I would really like to share my models I used to donate to Google.
I would prefer the 'external database' approach, as these models have nothing to do with the map data, neither technically nor logically. OSM is not a 3D representations of the world. It doesn't even include terrain height so far.
I would furthermore propose the collada file format for the 3D models, as it is an open, xml based format. It's machine- and human readable and would even allow osm specific extensions. (It would also allow easy sharing of models already created for google, as the sketchup-tool supports it.)
All we would need in the osm database is an anchor point. Mapping the local coordinate system of the model to the global system of the map would fall in the reign of the renderer.
Looking forward to this
Comment from !i! on 10 February 2011 at 09:50
@Edward I don't know the exact 2.5D definition but the question is how flexible we want the concept to be :)
@chaos I asnwered you right at the wikis talk page.