<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In looking into this a month or so ago, I came across something called OpenGIS and wonder if some of their work might be appropriate to help?<br><br>Charles<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Diva Canto <diva@metaverseink.com><br>To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br>Cc: opensim-users@lists.berlios.de<br>Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 4:19:58 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] terraingen<br><br>
Sean Dague wrote:<br>> First off, nice work. :) I posted it on my blog to help spread the word<br>> about this.<br>> <br>Thanks!<br>> As you evolve this, what would be really neat would be to make a GISData<br>> region module that just let you specify: lat = , long = for the NW<br>> corner of your region, and the module would automatically find, pull<br>> down, convert, and cache the GIS data at start. :) It would probably<br>> be a good chunk of work, but it would be really nifty.<br>> <br>Hehehe. I like that! Especially the find and pull down part :-) The <br>world of GIS seems to be pretty messy, with things scattered all over, <br>in all sorts of different formats, and often produced using proprietary <br>tools. DEMs seem to have survived this mess, but, unfortunately, most <br>GIS data out there is being held hostage in proprietary software... I <br>pull my hair every time I talk to city
officials and environmental <br>scientists, and realize they have all their supposedly public data in <br>ESRI formats.<br><br>Any GIS experts out there interested in starting a serious GIS effort <br>within OpenSim? I would love to "free" all that data that's locked out <br>in .shp files...<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Opensim-dev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de" href="mailto:Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de">Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de</a><br><a href="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev" target="_blank">https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev</a><br></div></div></div></body></html>