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Posted by Paul Cooper on October 11, 2006, 9:48 am
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>Stefan -
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>Check out CityGML (www.citygml.org). There may be much useful
>information there as CityGML is designed to enable interoperable
>interchange of 3D urban models (buildings, terrain, building
>components, etc)
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>Regards
>
>Carl
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>Stefan Rilling wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> I am currently doing some research on 3D GIS file formats. I need to
>> store a quite large amount of data which is going to be used in a
>> OpenGL based realtime 3D renderer. What I have is a already
>> triangulated Digital Landscape Model generated from ATKIS and elevation
>> data. What I need is a file format which allows the storage of the 3D
>> mesh for each landscape object as well as meta information like object
>> type (which could be forest area, industrial are, roads etc), bounding
>> volumes, texture coordinates etc., i.e. all the stuff which is needed
>> for 3D graphics. Do such file formats exist or is it better to develope
>> my own format which suits all the requirements?
>>
>> Stefan
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If CityGL is insufficient, GML can handle at least 3 dimensional
objects. Whether there is any software that will handle the result is
moot!
Paul
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