Thursday, June 28, 2018

Creating a 3D Topographical Map in HoloLens/Windows MR With Bing Maps Elevation API

Introduction

All right, my friends, it's time for the real deal, the blog post I have been anticipating to write since I first published the 3D version of Walk the World two months ago. Unfortunately, it took me a while to extract comprehensible code from my rather convoluted app. Everyone who has ever embarked on a trip of 'exploratory programming' (meaning you have an idea of what you want to do, but only some vague clues about how) knows how you end up with a repo (and code) full of failed experiments, side tracks, etc. So, I had to clean that up a little first. Also, this app does a lot more than just show the map. As an added bonus, after creating this blog post, I finally began to understand, myself, how and, most importantly, why the app works.

So, without further ado, I am going to show you how to display a 3D map in your HoloLens or Windows MR headset.  I will build upon my previous post where I showed you how to make a flat, slippy map. This time, we are going 3D.



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