visualizing geospatial data Seeing Is Believing visualizing geospatial data with Blender Klaas Dijkstra October 2011

visualizing geospatial data with Blender Overview who am I why this talk what is GIS what is Blender conclusions / future steps visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender Who am I Klaas Dijkstra Traffic engineer GIS data analist at Nokia L&C (NAVTEQ) Founder/owner of XYZtens.eu visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender Why this talk GIS Blender open source communication kick-off your input! visualizing geospatial data with Blender

What is GIS Geographic Information System Geographical Information Science Geospatial Information Studies visualizing geospatial data with Blender

Geographic / Geographical / Geospatial, because with GIS we describe (a part of) our real world: streets a national park a country a continent the world visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender Information, because GIS holds properties of real-world objects: streets (street furniture) a national park (plant diversity) a country (demographics) a continent (river pollution) the world (climate/weather) visualizing geospatial data with Blender

System / Science / Studies, because GIS utilizes (Information) Technology includes geometry tools create / change / remove mathematical calculations includes attributing tools visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender GIS under the hood visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender GIS connects objects’ attributes with their location connects objects with other objects simulates the real world is about finding spatial relations uses a map as a visual connector visualizing geospatial data with Blender

Spatial Extract-Transform-Load software FME (www.safe.com) Special GIS application, but... multitude of formats data-centered simple mapping functionality visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender FME visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender FME Viewer visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender FME Viewer visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender FME Viewer demo visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender http://www.youtube.com/user/FuscoeGIS visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender time! (4 D) reality open source IS a visual UI output IS visual I thought a talk on how Blender could fill up the gap in the FME visualization is interesting for this FME audience. At least this will be a challenge for me to really look into the possibilities. visualizing geospatial data with Blender

GIS  Blender: what is needed? GIS, to process a format readable to Blender Blender, to make attribution available bring in interaction (BGE?) keep coordinate accuracy of original enable the way back to GIS I thought a talk on how Blender could fill up the gap in the FME visualization is interesting for this FME audience. At least this will be a challenge for me to really look into the possibilities. Consultation evening visualizing geospatial data with Blender

visualizing geospatial data with Blender Thank you! Questions? Shoot me! visualizing geospatial data with Blender

Presentatie in Blender GE Fly-through / animaties / navigatie FME  B (2d) FME  B (3d) FME  B (3d) VR: tracking BGE B  FME

Waarom Blender en geen KML? Waarom Blender niet via Collada? 3d, 3d +t, navigation, interaction Virtual Tours / Augmented Reality FME transformer Earth Open source, Python compatibility Attribution & editing?

About me / my profession About GIS: layer approach, modelling our world, cartography/presentation, information, calculation, what-if scenarios; FME, ArcGIS, CAD, etc. About Blender from my perspective: art, reality, 3d, time, BGE interactivity Comparison: open v. proprietary, visual approach, strong community, Python Where Blender can help FME: what is needed? Demos: 2d, 2.5d, 3d, 4d, attribution, editing Build a stripped down version of Blender Future developments

Klaas Dijkstra Traffic engineer founder/owner of XYZtens.eu GIS data analist at Nokia L&C (since 2005)