Jaanga Terrain provides multiple ways of viewing the SRTM 30 Plus data source from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
A fun place to start: Jaanga Terrain 3D Globe
Notes:
- Elevations are highly exaggerated - in a game-like fashion - perhaps due to an over-exuberance of 3D happiness
- Viewers contain sliders that enable you to control the scale of the vertical elevation
- Each viewer has a read me file that includes a list of bugs/issues as well as a road map of what's likely to appear next
- This work is at an early stage and not yet fully prepared for general usage
- The apps are being built and tested on Windows 8.1 using the latest Chrome browser and require WebGL support.
- Any other configurations - particularly older iPads or MacBooks - are likely to have issues
» SRTM30 Plus PNG TM7+ Viewer 3D Globe Low Resolution
» Source code on GitHub
A first pass at building a 3D globe. Covers the entire globe.
» SRTM30 Plus PNG TM7+ Viewer 3D Globe Medium Resolution
» Source code on GitHub
View only a quarter of the globe but at a higher resolution. A work-in-progress. Map overlays not yet implemented.
» SRTM 30 PLUS PNG TMS7+ Viewer 3D unFlatland
» Source code on GitHub
A full featured viewer. Displays terrain as if the Earth is a plane. Start here to explore the possibilities of news ways of visualizing digital elevation models.
Currently the most worked-out, well-developed viewer.
The name unFlatland is a play on the Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions a satirical novella written in 1884. The title is relevant because though the unFlatland scripts flatten the globe out into a plane the plane ends up full of 3D bumps and dimples.
» SRTM 30 PLUS PNG TMS7+ Viewer 3D unFlatland Hello World
» Source code on GitHub
Very simple, basic script. Start here to see how easy it is to begin coding your own 3D maps.
» 10 Degree Bitmap
» Source code on GitHub
A work-in-progress. Images may take twenty seconds or so to load the first time.