Hi,
On 06.07.2015 00:29, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote:
I'm in touch with a person that added many buildings in Iceland as 3D
models in Google Earth some years ago. You can find many of them there
if you type in Kvosin into Google Earth - they look really good.
that would be a valuable contribution, so thank you for putting effort
into helping them.
Providing a possibility to upload freely-licensed 3D models for use with
OSM has long been a goal of various people in the 3D community. A 2014
birds of a feather meeting regarding this topic hasn't resulted in
anything tangible yet, unfortunately. I had also proposed the
development of such a platform as a Google Summer of Code project this
year, but that didn't work out.
As you said, OpenBuildingModels is theoretically a platform for models
like these. However, there has been very little activity since its
release a few years ago.
Recently, OSM Buildings has also started to use 3D models in their
visualizations.¹ I'm not sure if these models are freely available for
other OSM-based projects, though.
Nevertheless, we should try to find a quick solution here. If nothing
else works, I would at least advocate to publish the models under an
open license in some universal format like Collada somewhere, and to
start working on integrating these in our various applications. I would
be willing to offer some webspace for that, too.
Cheers,
Tobias
¹
http://blog.osmbuildings.org/2015/05/product-designer-rene-schulz-supporting.html
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