https://github.com/openscenegraph/VirtualPlanetBuilder

Tool for generateing paged databases from geospatial imagery and heightfields
https://github.com/openscenegraph/VirtualPlanetBuilder

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Tool for generateing paged databases from geospatial imagery and heightfields

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/openscenegraph/VirtualPlanetBuilder
• Owner: openscenegraph
• License: other
• Created: 2012-01-13T17:26:40.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-09-27T15:41:45.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-07T15:58:14.182Z (7 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage: http://www.openscenegraph.org/index.php/documentation/tools/virtual-planet-builder
• Size: 1.21 MB
• Stars: 97
• Watchers: 20
• Forks: 64
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.txt
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
VirtualPlanetBuilder is terrain database creation tool that is able to read 

a wide range of geospatial imagery and elevation data and build from small 

area terrain database to massive whole planet paged databases. These databases 

can then be uploaded onto the internet and provide online GoogleEarth style 

roaming of whole planet databases, or kept on local disks for high speed 

access such as required for professional flight simulators.

VirtualPlanetBuilder just builds databases so for runtime viewing of database 

you'll need an OpenSceneGraph based application. The VirtualPlanetBuilder 

itself is based on the OpenSceneGraph real-time graphics toolkit, and creates 

databases in native OpenSceneGraph binary format for maximum paging performance. 

For non OpenSceneGraph based applications you'll need to convert the database

by writing your own post processing tool to convert from OpenSceneGraph native

format into you own native formats, or convert to COLLADA using the 

OpenSceneGraph native support for reading and writing COLLADA.

The VirtualPlanetBuilder project grew from the original paged database 

generation tools that can as part of the !OpenSceneGraph-1.2, and is now a 

separate project to enable both projects to focus on their own core disciplines.

We have plans to make it even more scalable making it possible to create 

multi-terabyte paged databases, and to create them across networks of 

computers, each of which take part of the job of creating the complete 

database. We will also provide support for database optimization for the 

lower bandwidth constraints of web based 3d database visualization.

Robert Osfield.

22nd July 2015