[Freegis-list] free 3D viewer

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:02:16AM +1100, Viveka Weiley wrote:

> if you just want to view shape files in 3D, you can use VRML/X3D. 
> There's a free converter here: http://www.my3d.com/ShapeViz.php

As far as I can see ShapeViz does not come with enough freedom 
to be Free Software.

http://www.my3d.com/ShapeVizLicense.php
	You may not reverse engineer, decompile, 
	or disassemble the SOFTWARE PRODUCT

Note: This list is only about Free Software coming with the four
nonretractable freedoms to use, modify, copy and publish improvements.

> VRML has a lot of geospatial goodness these days, with the GeoVRML
> extensions. Now that VRML has been replaced by X3D, this is called
> "X3D Geospatial Profile" or something.
> Then you can view your file in any VRML viewer:
> http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/VRML/Browser_Plugins/

Most of those viewer are also non-free.
For the free ones, I once saw
	http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/
	http://openvrml.org/

> If you want to do some cute tricks with your data, like integrating it
> with a geospatial database and interactively placing objects from
> within the 3D view, or writing and searching with metadata, then you
> can try our 3map tools - http://www.ping.com.au - all Free & Open
> Source Software, based on VRML/X3D, mySQL and Java.

This seems to be Free Software, but a new one according to the page
it was published 2 weeks ago.  Does it completely run of a Free
Software system? (E.g. does it avoid the Java-Trap:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html?)

Can you submit this to www.freegis.org?

	Bernhard
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