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Data services and visualization
http://opentraveldata.github.com/geobases/
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Add a 3D globe visualization #17

Closed alexprengere closed 3 years ago

alexprengere commented 11 years ago

Now that WebGL is supported in major browsers, it would be nice to have a 3D globe as a new frontend, in addition to the current 2D map.

For example, we could use this project, which seems to be under Apache License 2.0, to start adding some awesome WebGL-based visualizations to GeoBases.

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alexprengere commented 11 years ago

I just pushed a first version of this idea in the develop branch. It works like --map, you just have to add the -3/--3d option to enable it.

Here is the comparison of 2D and 3D for this example:

$ GeoBase -E gmt_offset -e 1.0 --map --3d

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