Re: What everyone is doing.....

I think there is supposed to be a 3D package for OpenMap sometime in the future.

If necessary, we'll write our own, or maybe someone else has already
written one. OpenMap is popping up on several DoD projects.

Pearson John T Jr GG-13 453 EWS/EWR wrote:

> Sure would be nice if OpenMap supported 3D visualization of geo-related
> information.
>
> JP
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Zacker [mailto:jeremy.zacker@lmco.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:14 PM
> To: Chris Schaefer
> Cc: openmap-users@bbn.com
> Subject: Re: What everyone is doing.....
>
> I'm woriking for the Maneuver Control System (MCS) which is part of the Army
> Battle
>
> Command System (ABCS). Generally we track troop movements across the
> battlefield.
> We also maintain Situational Awareness and assist in Planning Operations.
> We are
> also responsible for receiving live updates from the battlefield. Currently
> we are
> working
> with a mapping product called the Joint Mapping Toolkit (JMTK), which is
> written in
> C.
>
> I have been trying to get our project to migrate to a Pure Java
> implementation
> using OpenMap. So, lately I've been using OpenMap to build a few
> demonstrations
> displaying
> it's capabilities and performace. My deomstrations have been pretty
> seccessful in
> proving
> Java's performance capabilities and its scalability. OpenMap has been a key
> element in planning
> the Army's future digitized battelfield software.
>
> Chris Schaefer wrote:
>
> > It would be great if the bbn folks could add a section to the web
> > site where we could all sort of "register"
> > what we're doing. There's got to be tons of overlap, and I'm sure
> > some great alliances would develop.
> >
> > Myself, I'm working on a sailboat racing package. It's just coming
> > alive now, probably not quite useful yet. And I need to do some
> > fundamental tech shifts ( like plugins to layers ), but I've got the
> > following parts limping along:
> > 1) Display of BSB style marine charts
> > 2) Display of NOAH's GRIB forecast data.
> > 3) Display of Tide/Current Station data
> > 4) Waypoint/Route display.
> > 5) Calculation of optimized Route to point.
> >
> > I'd love to hear what others are doing.
> >
> > -C-
> >
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