This screenshots have been created using the QGIS with the following plugins:

• Multitemporal and multivariate data visualisation (http://hub.qgis.org/projects/multiview)
• Scttergram identify (http://hub.qgis.org/projects/scattergramdentify
• Globe Plugin

Last night Pirmin committed our Globe plugin to the QGIS trunk. this means that getting the needed dependencies (see below), building QGIS with -DWITH_GLOBE=ON and activating the plugin its all it takes to get a super globe running on QGIS.
Dependencies:
sudo apt-get install osgearth osgearth-dev openscenegraph (should be enough)
WARNING: it appears if you don’t install osgearth-dev, then the plugin will compile fine but will not be available for activation in the plugin list.

Installer: I updated the Installer Script although it is not really needed anymore since you just have to compile QGIS.

I’m not aware yet of the dependency packaging situation for OSs other than ubuntu.
Ciao Marco

After a day of work in the GeoWall lab at the GIScience Center of the Zurich University, I got QGis Globe to work in QuadBuffer stereo mode with polarization glasses.
The hardware used is a Dell Precision 390 workstation with a NVIDIA Quadro® FX 3500 Graphic card and two projectors mounted on a special rack with polarizing lenses.
The software on the software side, the mutex-globe branch was installed on an Ubuntu natty, using the classic (no effects) desktop since stereo cannot be used with the X composite extension. The graphic driver is the 270.41.06 coming from the restricted driver in Ubuntu. The modification I had to do to the /etc/xorg.conf generated from nvidia-settings file where the addition of:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "off"
EndSection
and within the Section “Device”:
Option "Stereo" "4"
Here the file for reference:# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 270.29 (buildd@roseapple) Fri Feb 25 14:43:24 UTC 2011
#
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
#
Section "Files"
EndSection
#
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
#
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
#
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Projectiondesign AS"
HorizSync 30.0 - 140.0
VertRefresh 48.0 - 110.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
#
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro FX 3500"
Option "Stereo" "4"
EndSection
#
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
#
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "off"
EndSection


Thanks to Marco Hugentobler’s idea of using Mutex, QGIS Globe now runs in Trunk, i just created a dev branch at https://github.com/mbernasocchi/Quantum-GIS/tree/mutex-globe and updated the installer script at http://www.bernawebdesign.ch/byteblog/2010/12/01/qgis-globe-plugin-installer-script/ (I haven’t tried it yet but it should work)

Cheers Marco

wow, what a long night, but finally I finished my masterr thesis… and now a free wknd!!!!

Am Freitag dem 6. Mai, findet an der Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil das 2. deutschsprachige QGIS Anwendertreffen statt. Quantum GIS (oder kurz QGIS) ist ein benutzerfreundliches Open Source Desktop- und Server-GIS welches sich einer stark wachsenden Anwendergruppe erfreut. Sie finden Infos zu QGIS unter www.qgis.org
Nach dem erfolgreichen ersten deutschsprachigen QGIS Anwendertreffen am 21.4.2010 in Bern findet das zweite deutschsprachige QGIS-Anwendertreffen an der HSR in Rapperswil statt. Alle aktuellen Infos zur Veranstaltung, wie auch zur Anmeldung, finden Sie auf der QGIS Seite.
Der Vormittag besteht aus zwei Blöcken mit Vorträgen und Demos, am Nachmittag werden drei parallele Workshops/Kurse für Anfänger, Fortgeschrittene und Programmierer durchgeführt. Der Vormittag ist für alle Teilnehmer gratis, die Kurse am Nachmittag kosten CHF 120.-
Wir würden uns freuen, möglichst viele QGIS-Anwender und Interessierte begrüssen zu dürfen.

btw, it will be my first public presentation

hi All, If you deal with multivariate, multitemporal and cyclic raster data you might find interesting my multiview plugin. See screenshot of what can be done in terms of different visualizations below. The code still has some minor glitches but it is very well usable (and stable). As well here there is an improved version of scattergramm plugin that allows you to select points (or clusters on the scattergramm and have them plotted on your map canvas (it’s the screenshot as well) I didn’t publish this last (scattergramidentify) plugin because I hope to get in contact with G. Picard (author of the original scattergramm) and maybe merge the codebase. but in the meantime you might still want to try it out
ciao Marco