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An interactive, 3D Ordnance Survey map of Stroud

I made a zoomable, draggable, 3D relief map of Stroud's five valleys, using Ordnance Survey maps.

Seb Bacon

03 Apr 2016 • 1 min read

A 3D projection of the Five Valleys of Stroud, with a lovely OS map on top.

I made a zoomable, draggable, 3D relief map of the five valleys of Stroud, using Ordnance Survey maps. (Right-click to pan, scroll-wheel to zoom, control-click to rotate.)

I didn’t make detailed notes about how I did it, and it was a while ago. The brief version, as I recall it, is:

I did it all with QGIS and plugins:
Qgis2threejs to generate the visualisation
I can’t remember how I got the LiDAR (DEM) models but it was something like this
I used Bing Maps with the OpenLayers Plugin to get the OS maps

It’s interesting to see what Stroud would look like with a sea level of 60 meters:

The same Ordnance Survey map of the Five Valleys of Stroud as the previous one on this page, as if it were flooded with water to the 60m contour

I also made one for a local historian, showing the plan and height of now-demolished buildings in Badbrook (where the cinema complex currently stands):

A small section of the Badbrook area of Stroud, Victorian map, with 3D shapes of different heights projected onto it

And one for my parents when they were taking part in a community project to survey the historic landscape of Holmfirth (shows listed buildings, and trees).

A 3D relief map of Holmfirth, 3D boxes representing listed buildings, green cones representing trees

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