osgEarth Drivers

Image / Elevation Drivers

These drivers generate image or elevation tiles that make up the terrain itself.

AGGLite Rasterizes feature data into image tiles.
ArcGIS Reads imagery data from ESRI ArcGIS Server map services or the ArcGIS Online web service
Composite Combines multiple <image> layers into one logical image layer
GDAL Reads geo-referenced imagery and elevation data in a  large number of formats including GeoTIFF
MBTiles Reads imagery tiles from the  MBTiles data packaging spec.
OSG Reads non-geo-referenced imagery (like JPEGs) using one of the OpenSceneGraph image reader/writers
TileCache Reads image tiles from a MetaCarta TileCache cache folder
TileService Reads tiles from a NASA WorldWind TileService repository
TMS Reads tiles from an OSGeo TileMapService repository
WCS Reads from an OGC Web Coverage Service
WMS Reads from an OGC Web Mapping Service
VPB Integrates with an existing  VirtualPlanetBuilder terrain

Model Drivers

Model drivers ingest data and create nodes that can be placed on top of the terrain. These could be "draped" layers, or they could be 3D models.

Feature Geometry Renders vector data as OSG geometry
Feature Stencil Drapes vector data on the terrain using a stencil buffer technique
Simple Loads an external model and places it in the scene graph

Feature Drivers

Feature drivers are used to read raw GIS vector data. They do not create visible geometry directly; model drivers that display vector data will use feature drivers to read in the vector data.

OGR Reads raw vector feature data from Shapefiles and  a number of other formats using the GDAL/OGR toolkit
WFS Reads raw vector feature data from an  OGC Web Feature Service

Cache Drivers

Cache drivers are used to provide tile caching implementations to osgEarth.

tms Stores cached tiles in a  TMS-style file hierarchy on disk. (DEFAULT)
sqlite3 Caches tiles in an sqlite3 database on disk.

Terrain Engine Drivers

A terrain engine driver provides osgEarth with a terrain skin (image+elevation) rendering implementation.

osgterrain A terrain renderer based on the OpenSceneGraph osgTerrain library. (DEFAULT)

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