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Hi,</div>
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As part of investigating the possibility of developing a web-based version of Hikar, I've developed a simple (and with several flaws!) proof-of-concept 3D OSM application which overlays OSM highways on Terrarium DEM data using A-Frame (aframe.io).</div>
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It is only simple, for instance it doesn't show water, doesn't yet show models, and doesn't show rivers - and has some rendering artefacts in that OSM ways might disappear below ground level if they do not contain enough nodes.
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Also it's restricted to Europe and Turkey, as these are the regions my database cover.
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Anyway, I was wondering if there was any active development on open-source 3D OSM renderers with terrain? I'm aware that several years ago we had the OSM-3D project but development on this seems to have stopped, and many projects exist which do impressive rendering
of buildings, but I can't find anything which aims to render terrain and countryside areas.<br>
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If not, I'm wondering if anyone wanted to collaborate on this and take it further? It's unlikely I will personally have the time to fully develop the demo into an impressive OSM VR app, but would be interested to hear if anyone is keen to work on it.</div>
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Demo at: <a href="https://hikar.org/aframe/" id="LPlnk918210">https://hikar.org/aframe/</a></div>
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Repo: <a href="https://gitlab.com/nickw1/aframe-expts/" id="LPlnk894928">https://gitlab.com/nickw1/aframe-expts/</a></div>
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Thanks,</div>
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Nick</div>
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