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razor1394
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 Posted: Fri, 4th Mar 2005 00:57 Post subject: Nasa World Wind |
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World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there. Virtually visit any place in the world.
Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara. World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.
Particular focus was put into the ease of usability so people of all ages can enjoy World Wind. All one needs to control World Wind is a two button mouse. Additional guides and features can be accessed though a simplified menu.
Navigation is automated with single clicks of a mouse as well as the ability to type in any location and automatically zoom into it.
What's New:
* Significant user interface improvements, including tile download indicator
* New NLT Landsat7 dataset
* New NLT elevation dataset
* New community Landsat7 mirror dataset from WorldWindCentral.com
* Camera: added planet gravity, camera banking, field-of-view, and axis lock options. Planet gravity is on by default
* Place finder: fast search with index generator, columns, favorites, history, GPX coordinate import/export
* Scripting capability added, based on 1.0 specification (Tom Gaskins, NASA: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/dev/World%20...2005-02-12.doc)
* Now interprets new worldwind://wmsimage= URI format
* Provincial borders added for Canada, municipal borders added for Norway and Sweden
* Installer: optimized, correctly checks for .NET 1.1, doesn't run multiple instances, has several translations. Rapid Fire MODIS base dataset included in install
* SVS now compatible with new server data format
* New "Flags of the World" and "County Municipalities in Norway" add-ons
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Damn. I've never heard about that app before. Sounds very interesting.
Download (171 MB) - http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Mar 2005 04:21 Post subject: |
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This seems similar to the Keyhole service which Google bought recently.
http://www.keyhole.com/
Im a cockfag
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Mutantius
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Mar 2005 07:02 Post subject: |
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though dont u need to pay for it?
"Why don't you zip it, Zipfero?" - fraich3
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razor1394
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Mar 2005 10:02 Post subject: |
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Yes It's payware. This one is free.
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