This member-only working group meets bi-weekly on Mondays from 08-09:00 pacific and discussions occur on the Geospatial mailing list. Web3D Calendar

Member-only resources: Meeting Link, Agenda, Minutes and Documents 

The Geospatial Working Group strives to ensure that the X3D specification is capable of handling all manners of geospatial data representations. We interact with other standards development organizations (including the Open Geospatial Consortium and the World Wide Web Consortium) and vendors to employ open protocols and content standards to provide an interoperable framework for visualizing and interacting with geospatial data. These standards-based specifications will be used to create systems and content that is usable, and re-usable, over the long term.

The Geospatial Working Group effort encompasses client-side, server-side, authoring, and conversion technologies. It's goals include:

• Make it easier to create and use 3D spatial data.
• Promote spatial data use within X3D via open architectures.
• Providing ability to use publicly and privately available terrain and imagery datasets
• Capitalizing on X3D capabilities (e.g. scripting and HTML 5 browser support) for displaying geospatial data
• Promoting its use as an alternative to proprietary solutions

Web3D Consortium members can participate in this working group by joining the geospatial@web3d.org mailing list.

Selected Recent Projects

• Work in Progress
• Projects and collborators
  • The 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment (3DPIE) united OGC and Web3D to successfully test and demonstrate different mechanisms for handling 3D geodata using open standards-based formats and services.T

  • USNA Climate resiliency summary report - The capability of a military installation to avoid and  prepare for effects from extreme weather events and anticipated changes in environmental conditions.

  • 3D representation of the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. - Virginia Tech's Center for Geospatial Information Technology is leading an innovative mapping project to create a comprehensive three-dimensional model of the town of Blacksburg, Va. 

  • A scientific visualization of robotically collected undersea data - MBARI Visualization of  the spatial temporal structure of measurements taken from robotic oceanographic platforms.

  • Collaboration walkthrough of facility planning - Using X3D for Navy Enterprise Collaboration

• Examples
  • 3D visualization of the port of Gulfport  Leveraging existing and remotely collected data to create and visualize the site characteristics of the Port of Gulfport.
  • U.S. Navy SPIDERS3D
  • 3D Blacksburg from Virginia Tech is a 3D representation of the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
  • MBARI STOQS,  a scientific visualization of robotically collected undersea data is under active development by MBARI. An online demonstration is available.
  • 3D Weather Globe