Hello there,
I’m a brand new user of Geoserver, still doing the tutorials, and I’m looking forward to setup Geoserver as internal server of georeferenced information in my company.
Apart this I also want to know if it’s possible for Geoserver to serve a set of 3D models we have prepared in Sketchup to be seen in Google Earth. I would just have to send the kml link for the viewers and all the information would be stored in Geoserver.
Thanks for any possible advices,
Miguel
GeoServer does not have "true 3D" support; in fact it will not even support height in KML at all until the next release (1.7.1), and even then it will simply assign a uniform height to each geometry based on the other attributes of the feature (for example, you could make a map of the US with heights assigned by population, but you couldn't make a model of a stadium with the outside edge higher than the inside edge). Additionally, I don't believe sketchup produces geo-referenced data so it seems a bad fit for GeoServer. I would suggest just hosting the KML as a static file. If you are worried about end-users saving copies of stale KML files, you can give them links to a small KML file containing a NetworkLink to the 'real' document.
Hope this helps,
David Winslow
Miguel Marques wrote:
Hello there,
I'm a brand new user of Geoserver, still doing the tutorials, and I'm looking forward to setup Geoserver as internal server of georeferenced information in my company.
Apart this I also want to know if it's possible for Geoserver to serve a set of 3D models we have prepared in Sketchup to be seen in Google Earth. I would just have to send the kml link for the viewers and all the information would be stored in Geoserver.
Thanks for any possible advices,
Miguel
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David Winslow ha scritto:
GeoServer does not have "true 3D" support; in fact it will not even support height in KML at all until the next release (1.7.1), and even then it will simply assign a uniform height to each geometry based on the other attributes of the feature (for example, you could make a map of the US with heights assigned by population, but you couldn't make a model of a stadium with the outside edge higher than the inside edge). Additionally, I don't believe sketchup produces geo-referenced data so it seems a bad fit for GeoServer. I would suggest just hosting the KML as a static file. If you are worried about end-users saving copies of stale KML files, you can give them links to a small KML file containing a NetworkLink to the 'real' document.
David,
I believe he wants to use the collada models as symbols in a map,
they are just like png files, just that they are 3d instead.
Something like this:
http://www.gearthblog.com/images/images1007/shuttle.jpg
Basically you know where to place the 3d model, and how big,
GE does the rest.
As far as I know we don't support this, but it would be very
nice to. We could allow people to link to the 3d model
as an SLD ExternalGraphic and have KML encoder handle it appropriately.
Cheers
Andrea
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Hello there,
Andrea Aime got it right: the model is built and would just be used as a symbol.
I’ll start working on the approach David detailed, it seems simple enought to work.
Miguel
2008/11/15 Andrea Aime <aaime@anonymised.com>
David Winslow ha scritto:
GeoServer does not have “true 3D” support; in fact it will not even support height in KML at all until the next release (1.7.1), and even then it will simply assign a uniform height to each geometry based on the other attributes of the feature (for example, you could make a map of the US with heights assigned by population, but you couldn’t make a model of a stadium with the outside edge higher than the inside edge). Additionally, I don’t believe sketchup produces geo-referenced data so it seems a bad fit for GeoServer. I would suggest just hosting the KML as a static file. If you are worried about end-users saving copies of stale KML files, you can give them links to a small KML file containing a NetworkLink to the ‘real’ document.
David,
I believe he wants to use the collada models as symbols in a map,
they are just like png files, just that they are 3d instead.
Something like this:
http://www.gearthblog.com/images/images1007/shuttle.jpgBasically you know where to place the 3d model, and how big,
GE does the rest.As far as I know we don’t support this, but it would be very
nice to. We could allow people to link to the 3d model
as an SLD ExternalGraphic and have KML encoder handle it appropriately.Cheers
Andrea–
Andrea Aime
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Hi All,
Apologies for digging up such an old thread, but I was wondering if the
support for 3D Models in KML was something still being considered for
Geoserver?
No worries either way, but I thought I'd check before implementing my
alternative solution. That is, setting up a proxy server which performed a
WFS request (for the desired feature type), and translated the GML response
into KML with the necessary bits to use a collada model.
Regards,
Andy
Miguel Marques-2 wrote:
Hello there,
Andrea Aime got it right: the model is built and would just be used as a
symbol.I'll start working on the approach David detailed, it seems simple enought
to work.Miguel
2008/11/15 Andrea Aime <aaime@anonymised.com>
David Winslow ha scritto:
GeoServer does not have "true 3D" support; in fact it will not even
support height in KML at all until the next release (1.7.1), and even
then
it will simply assign a uniform height to each geometry based on the
other
attributes of the feature (for example, you could make a map of the US
with
heights assigned by population, but you couldn't make a model of a
stadium
with the outside edge higher than the inside edge). Additionally, I
don't
believe sketchup produces geo-referenced data so it seems a bad fit for
GeoServer. I would suggest just hosting the KML as a static file. If
you
are worried about end-users saving copies of stale KML files, you can
give
them links to a small KML file containing a NetworkLink to the 'real'
document.David,
I believe he wants to use the collada models as symbols in a map,
they are just like png files, just that they are 3d instead.
Something like this:
http://www.gearthblog.com/images/images1007/shuttle.jpgBasically you know where to place the 3d model, and how big,
GE does the rest.As far as I know we don't support this, but it would be very
nice to. We could allow people to link to the 3d model
as an SLD ExternalGraphic and have KML encoder handle it appropriately.Cheers
Andrea--
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andyjc ha scritto:
Hi All,
Apologies for digging up such an old thread, but I was wondering if the
support for 3D Models in KML was something still being considered for
Geoserver?
I would very much like to see it implemented, yes.
But there is no funding backing it, and I guess no developer actually
needs it for a project she's working on.
But we're very open to get patches to add such support.
Or you can look into the commercial software page at geoserver.org
if you prefer someone to implement that for you
Cheers
Andrea
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