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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>3D cities in Google Earth
style only requires extrusion of building footprints and application of simple textures
(or not).</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>How realistic they are is
another question…</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Michael Gould</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dept. Information Systems
(LSI)</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Universitat Jaume I,
12071 Castellón, Spain</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Email: gould (at)
lsi.uji.es</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Email2: mgould (at)
opengeospatial.org</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a href="http://www.geoinfo.uji.es"><span
lang=EN-GB>www.geoinfo.uji.es</span></a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Mensaje original-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>De:</span></b>
freegis-list-bounces@intevation.de [mailto:freegis-list-bounces@intevation.de] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>En nombre de </span></b>Ben Discoe<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Enviado el:</span></b> lunes, 14 de noviembre
de 2005 12:52<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Para:</span></b> 'Iņigo Telleria Elola'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>CC:</span></b> freegis-list@intevation.de<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Asunto:</span></b> RE: [Freegis-list] Choose
a GIS program</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Iņigo,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>3D realistic cities is a bit beyond
the state of the art in GIS, let alone open-source GIS. The most you are
likely to find is extruded footprints.</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Please allow me to recommend
instead that you look at projects like ours, the Virtual Terrain Project ( <a
href="http://vterrain.org/">http://vterrain.org/</a> ). The VTP
already does fairly realistic virtual cities, is
open-source, cross-platform, and while it isn't a full-blown GIS, it
can take any sort of GIS data as input and do many GIS-like operations.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-Ben</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
35.4pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Iņigo
Telleria Elola<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 14, 2005
12:53 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> freegis-list@intevation.de</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am doing a proyect about 3D realistic virtual
cities. I have to choose a GIS OpenSource program (for example: Jump, uDig,
qgis, grass, ...). With choosed program I will do 3D plugins.</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have read a lot about these program and it's the
moment to choose the program based in some criterias: interoperability,
portability, easiness to develop plugins, ...</span></font></p>
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