The OpenWebGlobe project has been presented at FOSSGIS 2013 (http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/). We also had a booth presenting our OpenWebGlobe game (SwizzQuiz) on a touch screen. The presentation slides (German) are available here.
New OpenWebGlobe Demo
A new openwebglobe demo is available at: http://world.openwebglobe.org
It features worldwide elevation data (ASTER GDEMv2 and some global image layers).
New OpenWebGlobe Server Architecture
We have a new server setup for OpenWebGlobe. Using our enhanced version of MapCache (https://www.github.com/OpenWebGlobe/mapcache).
All OpenWebGlobe tiles are cached in Amazon S3. If a tile is not yet available it is retrieved from our high performance server located in Muttenz, Switzerland. We can have many instances running in the Amazon cloud to speed up delivery of our data.
With this architecture it is very easy to add/update massive new data.
A demo will be available very soon, it includes worldwide elevation and image data. It also includes OpenStreetMap data with transparent background suitable for overlays.
OpenWebGlobe 0.9.21 Released
A new version of OpenWebGlobe WebSDK is available now. It fixes some bugs and improves performance. You can download it here as zip: Current WebSDK
The full source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/OpenWebGlobe/WebViewer
The precompiled JavaScript code can be accessed at: http://www.openwebglobe.org/js/openwebglobe-0.9.21.js
Coming soon: a new data server for openwebglobe featuring global elevation data.
Geolocalisation Project
3d Real-Time Enviroment Viewer was the name of this years project developed for Armasuisse (a swiss research and technology company) which ended with a presentation last week.
OpenWebGlobe was used for the visualization and exploration of 3d models and pointclouds of a prior unknown building. The point-cloud data was loaded in real time into the application streamed over a network of several dynamic linked linux nodes.
The project focus relied on rapid 3d mapping of unknown building and industry sites. Various project partners delivered mass of point cloud data acquired by laserscanner or stereo vision devices for visualization in OpenWebGlobe. Our application runned on several iPads and everybody could follow the information exchange between the different data sources and sinks. The following screenshot shows our application in action – the building information was incrementally updated on every device, so a user got a detailed overview of the unknown building and site.
This was the second year OpenWebGlobe contributed to this project, we’re looking forward to see all project partners again for another successful project next year.