[Opensim-dev] terraingen

[James Hughes]

Diva Canto wrote:
> Sean Dague wrote:
>   
>> First off, nice work. :)  I posted it on my blog to help spread the word
>> about this.
>>   
>>     
> Thanks!
>   
>> As you evolve this, what would be really neat would be to make a GISData
>> region module that just let you specify: lat = , long = for the NW
>> corner of your region, and the module would automatically find, pull
>> down, convert, and cache the GIS data at start.  :)  It would probably
>> be a good chunk of work, but it would be really nifty.
>>   
>>     
> Hehehe. I like that! Especially the find and pull down part :-) The 
> world of GIS seems to be pretty messy, with things scattered all over, 
> in all sorts of different formats, and often produced using proprietary 
> tools. DEMs seem to have survived this mess, but, unfortunately, most 
> GIS data out there is being held hostage in proprietary software... I 
> pull my hair every time I talk to city officials and environmental 
> scientists, and realize they have all their supposedly public data in 
> ESRI formats.
>
> Any GIS experts out there interested in starting a serious GIS effort 
> within OpenSim? I would love to "free" all that data that's locked out 
> in .shp files...
>
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You might contact some of the GRASS developers.

<j>