I have as part of my mega-project, an attempt at making a to scale earth (I am using main branch, compiled daily Godot), but many of the datasets for elevation and sat photos I have looked at are gpl incompatible datasets. I'm not sure how I missed the NASA SRTM datasets, but they are public domain and thus gpl compat!
This is great news and I appreciate this very much! (your product is cool too!)
Now, turning the HGT data into an actual mesh is going to be the challenge, but it seems doable! Mapping elevation data to a sphere is sure to teach me some things...
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Thank you thank you thank you!
I have as part of my mega-project, an attempt at making a to scale earth (I am using main branch, compiled daily Godot), but many of the datasets for elevation and sat photos I have looked at are gpl incompatible datasets. I'm not sure how I missed the NASA SRTM datasets, but they are public domain and thus gpl compat!
This is great news and I appreciate this very much! (your product is cool too!)
Now, turning the HGT data into an actual mesh is going to be the challenge, but it seems doable! Mapping elevation data to a sphere is sure to teach me some things...
Take a look at https://github.com/r-follador/TopoLibrary
I will need to document the code more clearly and extensively, but on the Readme there's an example on how to turn the HGT into a mesh (GLTF).
Very cool! Thank you!