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."
Geostationary Satellite Server (Score:5, Informative)
Takes a hefty chunk of hardware (Score:5, Informative)
A free version of Keyhole? (Score:4, Informative)
~Berj
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: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.
Commercial site (free usage) (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Can we.. (Score:4, Informative)
http://learn.arc.nasa.gov.nyud.net:8090/worldwind
servers is down but (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Takes a hefty chunk of hardware (Score:3, Informative)
And I'm wishing for an OS X port
And a 'direct' download link (Score:5, Informative)
Also cached of course.
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 you to zoom to remarkable detail, but was limited by the amount of freely available data - the BluMarble NASA image of the earth was about the best there was. This will provide the opportunity to go to those extra levels of detail - I look forward to the results for Celestia.
Jedidiah.
Terraserver?? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Hmmmm? (Score:3, Informative)
Keyhole (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Warning: Uses and installs .NET !!! (Score:2, Informative)
All in all, it makes for one hell of a big "Hello World" program...
USGS terraserver.microsoft.com (Score:2, Informative)
Also...SpaceImaging.com's good - they have lots of famous places in their gallery, as well as a bunch of universities.
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 ;) ]
Hosting a torrent (Score:2, Informative)
Oops :) (Score:2, Informative)
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Slashdotting, indeed.. (Score:2, Informative)
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USGS National Map (Score:2, Informative)
Very useful for spying on old images of neighbors.
It can be viewed at The National Map [nationalmap.gov].
Re:Already slow (Score:2, Informative)
Re:A free version of Keyhole? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:WE SLASHDOTTED NASA (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:A threat to our security? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:259M download! (Score:5, Informative)
City of Toronto has this (Score:3, Informative)
Re:259M download! (Score:3, Informative)
its a public torrent, a little poky right now.
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. ;-)
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)
Re:Mirrors (Score:2, Informative)
Torrents in this post! (Score:3, Informative)
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 thing you can get a 7 day or 14 day trial. The longer trial and lower subscription price are for the NVidia version of Keyhole which is subsidized by NVidia (I suppose). Please note though that an NVidia graphics board is not a necessity. The current first year subscription for the NVidia version is $30.
I don't work for Keyhole but as someone else commented I wouldn't mind. For example, would they like to produce a Mac version of the product?