osgEarth Quickstart

osgEarth is a scalable terrain rendering toolkit for OpenSceneGraph.

This Quick Start describes how to start a 3D globe with different overlays.

Running osgearth_simple

• Open a console and start the osgearth simple viewer:

  osgearth_simple --window 50 50 900 700

• Press ‘1’-‘5’ for predefined viewpoints.

• Click to navigate; right-click or scroll wheel to zoom in and out.

• Drag mouse with left+right click for tilt.

• hit the ‘escape’ key to quit

Overlay a WMS Service

• In a console, type:

  osgearth_simple --window 50 50 900 700 /usr/share/osgearth/maps/nexrad.earth

You should see a globe with radar data over some parts of North America.

Running osgviewer with an OpenStreetMap overlay

• In a console, type:

  export OSG_FILE_PATH=/usr/share/osgearth
  osgviewer /usr/share/osgearth/maps/openstreetmap.earth

• Press ‘h’ for help. See also openscenegraph.org for more help.

What Next?

To learn more about osgEarth, a starting point is the Documentation page in the Wiki.