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= osgEarth - Terrain On Demand =

osgEarth is a C++ terrain rendering toolkit. Just create a simple XML file, point it at your imagery, elevation, and vector data, load it into your favorite [http://openscenegraph.org OpenSceneGraph] application, and go! osgEarth supports all kinds of data and comes with lots of examples to help you get up and running quickly and easily.

 * [wiki:Downloads Installation] - Git access, build instructions, and pre-built binaries
 * [wiki:Documentation] - HOW-TOs, references, and API documentation
 * [wiki:Community] - Discussion, support, and feature requests
 * [wiki:Screenshots Gallery] - Pretty pictures of datasets generated using osgEarth 
 * [wiki:About] - Information of the project, licensing, and its authors 

== Easy to use ==

How easy is it to render terrain with osgEarth?
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 osgviewer gdal_tiff.earth
}}}

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== Things you can do ==

osgEarth makes is easy to deploy scalable terrain models:

 * Create terrain models - either offline, or dynamically at run-time
 * Load whole-earth terrains without writing any code
 * Visualize OGC-compliant web mapping data
 * Combine multiple imagery, elevation, and vector data sources on the fly
 * Set up map tile caches to maximize performance
 * Layer imagery to produce high-resolution insets
 * Adjust layer opacity in real time
 * Drape vector (GIS) data on the terrain
 * Reproject data among different coordinate reference systems
 * Place external models on the terrain with lat/long coordinates
 * Incorporate new data into existing VPB databases (without rebuilding them)

== Things you can see == 

 * GeoTIFF imagery and DEM files (plus lots of other formats)
 * Vector data like ESRI shapefiles
 * OGC-compliant web mapping data (like [http://www.opengeospatial.org WMS])
 * GIS layers published with [http://mapserver.org MapServer] or [http://http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisserver/index.html ESRI ArcGIS Server]
 * Online maps like [http://openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap], [http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices/index.cfm ArcGIS Online], or [http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov NASA OnEarth]

== Professional Services ==

osgEarth is developed and maintained by the folks at [http://pelicanmapping.com Pelican Mapping]. We offer professional software development, integration, and data production services related to osgEarth, !OpenSceneGraph in general, and almost anything related to geospatial technology.