In our last blog post, we explored the benefits of visualizing 3D GIS data. This post talks about lidar as a widely used method of acquiring elevation data. Elevation values are used in GIS in two ways: as attributes or as part of the geometry of 3D objects. 2D data displays elevation from an attribute …
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Visualize Climate Change in 3D
People have been mapmaking throughout history, dating back to cave paintings and ancient maps. Maps have been used to represent the real world on a relatable scale and are used as tools to understand and navigate the world. In the early 1960s, geographic information systems (GIS) were created and developed by Dr. Roger Tomlinson for …