Hi there,

I've recently been involved in setting up a tile server to create a 
custom mapstyle (and associated map tiles) using OpenStreetMap (OSM) 
data. Whilst setting this up, I was curious to find out if anyone had 
combined OSM and POV-Ray to create an isometric version of OSM data and 


http://osm.kyblsoft.cz/3dmapa/?zoom=17&lat=75.75078&lon=14.31372&layers=B



This is a very interesting project and could potentially be used allow 
custom statistics to be overlayed/rendered over geographic area in a way 
that a 2D view doesn't allow, and many other possibilities....

When setting up standard 2D tiles using OpenStreetMap data, there are 
various styles that can be applied to maps (a bit like stylesheets for 
webpages) and I would interested to see if anyone could help with making 
some more exciting 3D styles for maps created using osm2pov. I 
immediately thought of Christoph Hormann's "Views of the Earth" project.

http://earth.imagico.de/main.php

Applying some of the lighting and textures that Christoph used would 
certainly create some fantastic map images (I guess you could somehow 
use OpenStreetMaps "contours" layer as a heightfield - see 
http://hikebikemap.de as an example).

Let me know what you think.

Happy rendering!

Reuben

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This is very interesting. I have started using GRASS and VTBuilder to  
convert .hgt and .dem files for use in Pov-Ray as height fields. I am not  
sure how Christoph did it - I'd love to know. I am having trouble finding  
high enough resolutions though - the free srtm data all seem to be 90m  
resolutions. Aparently you can get 30m files of the US, but I'm more  
interested in other areas.

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