Hey, I went trough a similar quest recently. The only solution I found that worked easily was to export the 3D shapefile, and visualize it in an external software (in my case , CloudCompare )
Sadly it's difficult to find a mature x3d viewer. Cheers, Rémi-C 2015-07-08 13:22 GMT+02:00 Tom van Tilburg <tom.van.tilb...@gmail.com>: > I think 3D is still in it's infancy in the world of GIS, so for many > things you have to things manually. > > If it's just visualizing, you may try to export them as X3D and open them > in an X3D capable viewer. > > Regina made a first (impressive) effort on a viewer with this: > https://github.com/robe2/postgis_x3d_viewer > > but you can also directly output a valid x3d file from an SQL query: > http://postgis.net/docs/ST_AsX3D.html > > T. > > > On 7-7-2015 21:44, Hillier, Michael wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I am searching for advice on how to visualize PostGIS 3D geometries: >> PointZ, PolygonZ, TinZ. So far I have tested out: >> >> * ArcScene - supports pointz and polygonz. but many issues with >> polygonz and confirmed by ESRI >> * pg3Dviewer - only supports Pointz. Although, was never able to >> visualize it even with their test dataset and tutorial. >> * QGIS - only supports 2D geometry - 3rd dimension ignored >> * Grass GIS - extremely difficult to use (I am not a GIS expert): >> connecting to database, creating new mapset, vector map etc. I was able to >> connect to the database and see my tables, figured out the mapset and >> vector map system. But the only thing it seems to pull in from the table is >> the id column and not the geometry. >> >> Honestly, the issues I have gone through to visualize simple 3D PostGIS >> geometries doesn't make sense to me. Shouldn't there be a simple >> environment to connect to the PostgreSQL/PostGIS database and visualize the >> 3D geometries? Or have I really missed something here? If there isn't what >> is the point in having standardized geometries on a S-DBMS if you can't >> visualize them? >> >> >> >> Is it expected that some advanced end user develop their own software >> using some visualization toolkit like VTK to visualize these geometries? >> >> >> >> Many thanks for any advice/guidance. >> >> >> >> Michael >> _______________________________________________ >> postgis-users mailing list >> postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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