Announce: TerraGear-0.0.5

I have just released TerraGear version 0.0.5:

    http://terragear.org

TerraGear is a collection of open-source tools and rendering libraries
which can transform publically available GIS data in 3d
representations (i.e. 3d models or 3d maps) of the earth for use in
real time rendering projects. Terragear can import 3d data sets such
as DEM terrain grids, 2d polygon data sets such as coastlines, city
outlines, lake outlines, and 2d raster data sets such as the 1km NAOO
land use/land cover data. It also has tools for generating realistic
airports, runways, and lighting based on available FAA data.

TerraGear's main terrain building tool has support for being
parallelized across a cluster of workstations greatly speeding the
overall world building process.

TerraGear is the primary tool used to generate the world wide scenery
for the FlightGear project.  If you don't want to build scenery
yourself, you probably don't need to worry about TerraGear.

The major changes from the previous version are listed here:

    http://terragear.org/news.html

You can download TerraGear here:

    http://terragear.org/downloads.html

Curt.
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Curtis Olson   IVLab / HumanFIRST Program       FlightGear Project
Twin Cities    [email protected]                  [email protected]
Minnesota      http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt   http://www.flightgear.org