HYDROACOUSTICS
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START | NEW VOL 20 | SEARCH | STATISTICS | PAS - GDANSK DIVISION |
pp. 129-134, vol. 16, 2013 Marcin Kulawiak Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland Key words: geographic information system; web service; HTML5; WebGL; OpenLayers library Abstract: Presenting geographic data in a web environment has been a long standing problem.
For many years the low performance of web browsers has limited the visualization of spatial
data to only two dimensions. More recently, the introduction of open standards for 3D
acceleration of web applications sparked the emergence of new methods of presenting three-dimensional
data in a web browser without using third-party extensions. However, these
solutions are relatively young and not yet fit for use in a production environment. This work
presents a method of three-dimensional representation of geospatial data in the context of
two-dimensional map. The presented system uses the well-proven OpenLayers library as well
as HTML5 and WebGL technologies to display three-dimensional geospatial data in the web
without the need for additional web browser plug-ins. The presented application may thus
constitute a viable solution until the more robust solutions mature.
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