PUBLIC MARKS with tags cartographie & 3d

Here is the code i used to render the heightfield and generate the pdf.

Godzi (pronounced "god's eye") is free, open source 3D mapping toolkit for WebGL/Javascript. Inspired by our osgEarth toolkit, Godzi will offer an application-level API for rendering and interacting with 3D maps.

The world just got a little smaller. IBM scientists have created a complete 3D map of the world measuring only 22 by 11 micrometers. The nano-world was “written” – on a polymer - at this size 1000 world maps could fit on a grain of salt*. In the relief, one thousand meters of altitude correspond to roughly eight nanometers. It is composed of 500,000 pixels, each measuring 20 nm2 and was created in only 2 minutes and 23 seconds

3D wood carvings of the East Greenland coastline, with the details of inlets and islands in sculptural relief. These could be employed by at night in conjunction with the stars, feeling your way along the coastline, navigating at an intimate scale.

"It's almost what you'd see if you flew around the area," says Hart. See a video of the map, above.

ARMCHAIR explorers who soar over 3D cityscapes on their computer may be used to the idea of maps with an extra dimension. But they are now getting accurate enough to offer much more than a preview of your next holiday destination. Accurate, large-scale 3D maps could soon change the way we design, manage and relate to our urban environments.

a 3D(ish) spinning texture-mapped globe, using nothing but Javascript and HTML