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gazebosim / sdformat

Simulation Description Format (SDFormat) parser and description files.

http://sdformat.org

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Support GDAL DEM file URI's #1412

Open Ryanf55 opened 6 months ago

Ryanf55 commented 6 months ago

Desired behavior

Allow SDFormat to load a DEM that uses the GDAL virtual filesystem format.

Alternatives considered

Skip SDF, write a custom plugin

Implementation suggestion

<heightmap>
   <use_terrain_paging>false</use_terrain_paging>
    <uri>gdal:://vsizip/vsicurl/https://terrain.ardupilot.org/SRTM1/ap_srtm1.zip/ap_srtm1.vrt</uri>
 </heightmap>

Additional context

Relates to https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-common/issues/596