Category: 3D Tiles

Posted on 3D, 3D Tiles, Crowdfund, QGIS

Our next QGIS 3D Crowdfunder with Lutra Consulting – QGIS 3D: Reality Capture, Animation & More

At North Road, we are passionate supporters of all things spatial and open source. We love it when this gives us the chance to work with new and exciting technologies, and developing 3D functionality in QGIS is just that! We are partnering again with our brilliant friends at Lutra Consulting to develop some really neat features focusing on reality capture technology, improved 3D visuals, and upgrading animation support. And there’s more! We also plan to add atmospheric scattering to create more realistic looking 3D scenes and make life easier by adding in scene presets, close various gaps in the identify tool and adding support for gamepads for easier navigation. Our financial goal to make this happen is €85 000 (about […]

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Posted on 3D Tiles, Integrations, QGIS

QGIS 3D Tiles – thanks to Cesium Ecosystem Grant!

We’ve recently had the opportunity to implement a very exciting feature in QGIS 3.34 — the ability to load and view 3D content in the “Cesium 3D Tiles” format! This was a joint project with our (very talented!) partners at Lutra Consulting, and was made possible thanks to a generous ecosystem grant from the Cesium project. Before we dive into all the details, let’s take a quick guided tour showcasing how Cesium 3D Tiles work inside QGIS: What are 3D tiles? Cesium 3D Tiles are an OGC standard data format where the content from a 3D scene is split up into multiple individual tiles. You can think of them a little like a 3D version of the vector tile format […]

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Posted on 1 Comment3D Tiles, Core Feature Development, Integrations, Partners, QGIS

Cesium Ecosystem Grant Win for QGIS 3D Tiles!

Success! Lutra and North Road have been rewarded a Cesium Ecosystem Grant to provide access to 3D tiles within QGIS. We will be creating the ability for users to visualise 3D Tiles in QGIS alongside other standard geospatial sources in both 3D and 2D map views. We are very excited about it, but to be included in the first cohort of awardees is also an added honour! We share this distinction with 3 other recipients: Peter Kimberley, Gradata Systems Pty Ltd, Canberra, Australia Vietnam War Missing in Action (MIA) Support HIdenori Watanave, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Digital Archives of War and Disasters Ethan Berg, Agora World, Philadelphia, PA, USA, GeoForAll: Simplifying 3D Geospatial Metaverse Creation The opportunity was […]

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