NASA Releases World Viewer 432
Klatoo55 writes "Nasa has released a comprehensive world viewing tool that allows you to zoom from planetary resolution down to where you can pick out individual streets. Really cool, but it needs a good internet connection and a decent graphics card. There's all sorts of interesting features, such as the ability to tilt your view for a flight-sim like experience and a data display feature that shows current natural disasters, political boundaries, weather patterns, and landmarks on the Earth's surface, all while providing a dynamic satellite's eye view of the planet."
Amazing... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Amazing... (Score:5, Funny)
Now if my neighbor had been sunbathing at the time...
...you'd be checking out his package?
Re:Amazing... (Score:2)
...then you would have two avenues for self-pleasure using the computer.
Time Lapse mixups (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Amazing... (Score:2)
Re:Amazing... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:NASA has surrendered! (Score:3, Informative)
I am a subscriber to Keyhole which is a much more powerful and accessible product. But to be fair it is not free. If you are intrigued by World Wind and would like to have a look at the real thin
Already slow (Score:5, Funny)
-nB
Re:Already slow (Score:5, Interesting)
This site has some absolutely stunning still shots of earth. Available as several hundred K JPGs, 1-2 meg JPGs, and up to 30 meg TIFFs.
-nB
I'm puzzled (Score:2, Funny)
Geostationary Satellite Server (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Geostationary Satellite Server (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Geostationary Satellite Server (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.htm
Make sure you do full investigation of the site, there is so many features that I can't begin to list them. It is basically a clearing house for any imagery generated for forecasting. Tools to animate however you wish, etc. Seriously, spend some time to check it out....
Takes a hefty chunk of hardware (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Takes a hefty chunk of hardware (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Takes a hefty chunk of hardware (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Takes a hefty chunk of hardware (Score:2, Informative)
This should probably run under WINE, the 3D requirements aren't that intense. In fact, it probably uses OpenGL.
Re:Takes a hefty chunk of hardware (Score:2)
Re:Takes a hefty chunk of hardware (Score:3, Informative)
And I'm wishing for an OS X port
Bastards... (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Bastards... (Score:5, Funny)
-- ^nA
the CREATURES, they live! [creaturesinmyhead.com]
Re:Bastards... (Score:2)
That's not true. I evicted my uncle almost two months ago.
Re:Bastards... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Bastards... (Score:2)
Re:Bastards... (Score:3, Funny)
Chalk another one up for Neil Stepehenson. (Score:3, Insightful)
"YOU ARE HERE."
WE SLASHDOTTED NASA (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WE SLASHDOTTED NASA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WE SLASHDOTTED NASA (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:WE SLASHDOTTED NASA (Score:3, Informative)
Re:WE SLASHDOTTED NASA (Score:5, Interesting)
Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
259M download! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:259M download! (Score:2)
Re:259M download! (Score:3, Informative)
its a public torrent, a little poky right now.
Re:259M download! (Score:5, Informative)
A free version of Keyhole? (Score:4, Informative)
~Berj
Re:A free version of Keyhole? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:A free version of Keyhole? (Score:5, Informative)
They have a huge amount of data in varried resolution. Most of it is available from multiple sources for free; however they have it all in one spot and all converted for their program.
What makes it truly great is the ability to add your own overlays directly over top of its data. Quite a spectacular product.
If you have it give this a try take a image of vegitaion [A] and overlay it over Iraq with at 30% transparency. Add a overlay that with the sunni / sheite population densities [B] and do the same.
KaPow! Data in context. Quite amazing really.
[A] vegetation [reliefweb.int] will require some cutting and pasting... but the images you have w/ key hole are pretty good
[B] Religious groups [globalsecurity.org]
If you want to check them out they are here:
earthviewer
[ I dont' work for them, but I would ;) ]
Re:A free version of Keyhole? (Score:4, Informative)
It certainly must be comprehensive... (Score:4, Insightful)
What a perfect (and missed) opportunity for NASA to use BitTorrent [bittorrent.com] instead of a huge zip file. Ah well.
The initial download is NOTHING (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Hosting a torrent (Score:5, Informative)
http://centraldownload.mine.nu/download.php?id=110 6&hit=1&file=worldwind.torrent [centraldownload.mine.nu]
(I didn't make the torrent, but I did post the link. ;-)
NSA (Score:2, Funny)
Re:NSA (Score:5, Funny)
Can we.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can we.. (Score:4, Informative)
http://learn.arc.nasa.gov.nyud.net:8090/worldwind
And a 'direct' download link (Score:5, Informative)
Also cached of course.
Re:Can we.. (Score:5, Funny)
With a 259MB download, you won't need to zoom in. You'll be able to see the crater from orbit. Heck, you'll probably be able to see the crater from the surface of the moon.
Re:Can we.. (Score:5, Funny)
I remember back when the moon was in orbit. Man, those were the days.
-Peter
Heh (Score:4, Funny)
Are you talking about me or their server?
C# And DirectX... (Score:5, Informative)
Maybe someone can think about a Manged-DX style wrapper around OpenGL for the Mono Project.
Can't think it would be easy though. DX does a lot for you.
The source is supposed to be placed on SourceForge soon. Should be a fun project to hack on.
Re:C# And DirectX... (Score:2, Interesting)
Don't be so proud of your technological terror... (Score:5, Funny)
Just like enemy of the state (Score:3, Funny)
Now you can play "enemy of the state" at home, without having to retask satellites on your own.
Is there anything that man can't do?!!!! (Score:2)
slashdotted straight off the map! (Score:2)
Anyone have a dupe? I guess I could just go outside and see the world for myself... nah!
Celestia (Score:5, Interesting)
For those of you who like this sort of software, check out Celestia [shatters.net]. It is a 3D space simulator, and lets you visit objects in our solar system and a bunch of stars. It's really amazing, and it's open source! My sister uses it for teaching astronomy to the neighborhood kids in their home-schooling class.
Re:Celestia (Score:3, Informative)
I was thinking of Celestia too, but more specifically, I was thinking that, as we speak, someone will be busy downloading and putting together new even higher detail virtual texture sets.
Celestia allowed
Locations of incidents... (Score:2)
Big brother (Score:3, Interesting)
Hope my thick black hair and beard'd consume all the light rays and reflect nothing.
BEWARE - Way too proprietary! (Score:5, Funny)
Commercial site (free usage) (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Commercial site (free usage) (Score:4, Funny)
You don't live in Florida, do you?
Re:Commercial site (free usage) (Score:2)
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Obligatory: (Score:3, Funny)
I live in a mobile home [palmharbor.com], YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
Re:Commercial site (free usage) (Score:3, Funny)
Ask the residents of Florida....
Similar Products (Score:3, Interesting)
For a high-res view but user-interface nightmare, GlobeXplorer [globexplorer.com] has free and subscription imagery online that incorporates aerial photography for less than 1 meter resolution (like way zoomed in.)
Of course, what roxorz is that the NASA prog is free. At least for now!
--
carbolic
WiFi-toys [wifi-toys.com]
Celestia and World Viewer (Score:5, Interesting)
servers is down but (Score:4, Informative)
Tremendous graphics! (Score:5, Funny)
And did they need Goresat to make this? (Score:2)
Great! When can I get live data? (Score:2, Funny)
I know, I know, it will never happen, but a guy can dream.
Maybe this is a good problem for an aerial kite camera solution
Snow Crash reference (Score:5, Insightful)
Compare this to Terraserver, in real-world terms (Score:2)
Can't run the code, since my Win-machine at home is a dual-boot with only Win98SE.
Can't run it on my work laptop, since even though it's Win2k, it doesn't meet the other requirements.
Even if I could get to the web site, I don't know that the information is readily available there *and* on Terraserver to really compare the two.
I've found my house on Terraserver, though the image was several years old. The field wasn't that tight, and got a bit more than our whole neighbor
Similar to... (Score:2)
gnutella magnet (Score:2)
Be sure to remove slashcode spaces.
Lame!!! (Score:2)
Nasa is the "National Aeronautics and Space Administration." [nasa.gov] The surface of the earth is neither aeronautical nor space (duh, it's a surface).
Now if the Department of Homeland Security [dhs.gov] were offering this, I think it would make sense!
area-51 not there (Score:3, Funny)
Oh my god (Score:5, Funny)
How long before Tom Ridge kills this? (Score:4, Funny)
N. Korea? (Score:3, Interesting)
"Hello, World!" (Score:5, Funny)
-JT
BitTorrent to the rescue! (Score:5, Informative)
Until NASA's servers manage to recover from the demand, here's a Torrent [festing.org] for your downloading enjoyment.
City of Toronto has this (Score:3, Informative)
For a desktop application (Score:3, Informative)
Mirrors (Score:3, Informative)
We are online again the WorldWind application can be downloaded from the following mirrors:
BEST
http://128.102.102.126:9080/mirror/worldwind-1_
http://128.102.102.129:9080/mirror/worldwind-
http://kiosk.arc.nasa.gov:8090/worldwind-1_2.
http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/archivetmps/worldwind-
Nasa opened up a few more links (Score:3, Informative)
Open Source & Porting (Score:4, Informative)
Torrents in this post! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:A threat to our security? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A threat to our security? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:A threat to our security? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:A threat to our security? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A threat to our security? (Score:3, Interesting)
If you were planning some kind of ground based attack you really wouldn't get any use from the map provided in the link above. Sure you'd get a general picture of where the whitehouse is located (its one of the white blobs for those who don'
Re:The big question.... (Score:3, Funny)
Area 52, on the other hand...
Re:Hmmmm? (Score:3, Informative)