{"id":1153,"date":"2013-08-03T16:51:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2013-08-03T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:57:18","slug":"flood-map-visualising-using-os-opendata-cityengine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Flood map visualising using OS Opendata &#038; CityEngine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1155\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1155\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1155\" alt=\"ce_flood_webscene\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ce_flood_webscene.jpg?resize=669%2C312\" width=\"669\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ce_flood_webscene.jpg?w=669&amp;ssl=1 669w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ce_flood_webscene.jpg?resize=300%2C139&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay it&#8217;s a little odd but I&#8217;ve been experimenting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/opendatadownload\/products.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ordnance Survey Opendata<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/cityengine\" target=\"_blank\">CityEngine <\/a>on and off for a while&#8230;. using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Extension tools I created from some OS terrain an artificial flood polygon. \u00a0 I imported the terrain and polygon into CityEngine renamed the flood polygon &#8220;flood__water&#8221; \u00a0(the &#8220;__water&#8221; tells the CityEngine webgl viewer to render it as water). \u00a0Then I exported it out as a webscene.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this is actually useful I don&#8217;t know, certainly for this demo it&#8217;s not as I&#8217;ve exaggerated the terrain a little for &#8216;dramatic&#8217; effect.<\/p>\n<p>I think it looks pretty good, I&#8217;m in the process of adding buildings, roads and forests, I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes&#8230; I&#8217;m also wanting to do this again using opensource software like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">QGIS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/cityengine\" target=\"_blank\">CityEngine<\/a> (there is no equivalent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/cityengine\" target=\"_blank\">CityEngine <\/a>as an opensource product).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1154\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1154\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1154\" alt=\"ce_flood_webscene1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ce_flood_webscene1.jpg?resize=675%2C314\" width=\"675\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ce_flood_webscene1.jpg?w=675&amp;ssl=1 675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ce_flood_webscene1.jpg?resize=300%2C139&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh and I think they need some more water types&#8230; I think flood water might be dirtier&#8230;. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1031\">if you&#8217;re interested in more do you remember the tree top walkway post I did a while back?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay it&#8217;s a little odd but I&#8217;ve been experimenting with Ordnance Survey Opendata\u00a0and CityEngine on and off for a while&#8230;. using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Extension tools I created from some OS terrain an artificial flood polygon. \u00a0 I imported the terrain and polygon into CityEngine renamed the flood polygon &#8220;flood__water&#8221; \u00a0(the &#8220;__water&#8221; tells the CityEngine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,145,64,140,83,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-arcmap","7":"category-cityengine","8":"category-esri","9":"category-opendata","10":"category-ordnance-survey","11":"category-workflow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}