This is an experimental fork of OpenLayers 3 to render digital elevation models using the integrated webgl functionality. The application is not running stable yet and serves only testing purposes.
For comments or contribution please contact Cartography and Geovisualization Group, Oregon State University.
Features at current stage:
- Plan Oblique Relief
- Hypsometric Tinting
- Waterbody Detection
- Hillshading
The input data has to be encoded and converted into a set of tiles before it can be read by ol3. Regular raster dems such as GeoTiff can be used. For data preprocessing see the scripts in dem-preprocessing. For the actual tile production we used a modified version of tiler-tools.
A working demo is currently available for the eu-dem (Digital Elevation Model of the European Environment Agency).
Click here for working demo http://ol3dem.boeppe.eu/ Works best in chrome and make sure your browser allows webgl.
