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Besides being a GIS user I'm a big computer game fan.
Games like Civilization, Minecraft, World at War and many others have a very powerful engine to display huge maps in a beautiful way.
Is it possible to use a game engine to display GIS data for a better comprehension or visualization of the environment?
Here is a method for doing Alpha By Value in QGIS
http://nathanw.net/2013/06/27/alpha-by-value-choropleth/
You can use the new ramp_color and scale_linear functions and data defined symbols
regexp_replace( ramp_color('usa', scale_linear( "unemployed_by_county_xgv_Rate",0,15,0,1)),',[^,]*$',','|| toint(scale_linear("unemployed_by_county_xgv_Labor_Force",0,100000,0,255)))
There has been a large adoption of 2.5D and 3D GIS products within the military mission planning community. Any increase in operational awareness in a battle space can have exponential benefits. Both of the products have become critical in vertical lift vehicle ingress and egress planning.(Helicopters) Knowing the vertical attributes can be very important when dealing with approach and take off paths.
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SimCity actually has the inbuilt ability to import USGS DEM data into it to use as a real-life terrain.
Of course if you use FME then you can create a USGS DEM out of almost anything, so you could get a custom SimCity landscape using any terrain data you have lying around.