Geoff 🏴
Stewart Russell@_thegeoff out in the mosaic in our front garden, covered in snow, is a tiny 3d printed rendition of the Eildon Hills. It's not like I'm from the Borders, I just really like the Eildons when I visit
@scruss BlenderGIS? Took me a while to work out I needed to update my Blender version, to insmtall the addon version, so I could put the API key in...but it works!
@_thegeoff no, terrain geotiffs and OpenSCAD. I don't remember my exact workflow. Might have been an export from QGIS
@scruss been experimenting with geotiffs directly into Blender, works great until there's the slightest problem, especially if you want to 3D print. Given the ridiculous detail the UK Ordnance Survey make available for "free" (hey, taxpayer funded, ditto NASA photos) it'd be nice to make use of it.
@_thegeoff I based my workflow on this:
https://gis.blog.torontomu.ca/2018/04/09/creating-3d-cityscapes/
(it's from a now-defunct mapping meetup in Toronto)
It does require working with QGIS, which has a learning curve all its own
@scruss Yeah, I'm "aware" of GIS, but have never studied it in detail, it just keeps barging into fun projects 😀
@_thegeoff I was very lucky to have a whole year of work that I wasn't allowed to work on any of my employer's projects*, so I taught myself GIS and looked out the window a lot.
*: a stupid turf war between senior management. I was the wind energy SME for eastern division: our wind projects had stalled. Western division, however, had lots of wind projects, but eastern division wouldn't let me work on them.