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- eurleif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+47@XStatic:
The code requires DirectX to compile. I wasn't aware that the title of "real Unix user" required the recipient to port incredibly complicated proprietary libraries to his platform. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46It only runs on computers, not shoes or coffee pots. I curse you, NASA!
- daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38Would it have killed you to read the FAQ on the site before you bitched about it not being cross platform? They are making progress toward that goal.
- murrolems, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35"didnt you know? digg is only for google, apple, and nintendo news. "
Don't forget about the Stephen Colbert clips! - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34"NASA has out done itself with this one"
Umm, yeah, way more impressive than landing ON THE FRICKEN MOON, or sending signals back from beyond the termination shock, or working out that scrubber from spare parts for Apollo 13, etc. etc.
Was this description designed to piss people off? - altjeringa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29version 2 will be cross platform. the code base is moving from .NET to Java.
- oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26they cover alot of win-only/mac-only/ linux-only.... alot of which is less cool than this.
also, it seems anything google-related (including competition) seems to get alot of publicity on digg. - daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Next Release
* 1.3.6 & 1.4
* Expected: August/September, 2006
In addition, the following list serves as an informational pointer to planned significant changes to the core of World Wind.
v1.5
NASA is refactoring the implementation of World Wind to a multiplatform API-centric architecture, both in .NET & Java. World Wind functionalities are being 'off-loaded' to modular components, leaving the API at the core. The architecture of these two implementations, .NET & Java, will remain identical. The intent is to allow plugins to be used as interchangeably as possible, i.e. via Python. This refactoring exercise will also allow World Wind to be accessed via a browser. The current estimated timeframe for release is 30 September 2006.
Lead NASA World Wind .NET developer: Chris Maxwell.
Lead NASA World Wind Java developer: Tom Gaskins. - Hickeroar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23It may be old and big, but one look at the screenshot of "realtime" weather images convinced me to download it.... Something about the idea of watching hurricane lumber slowly toward the coast from satelite is just freakin cool....
- xose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16WW2D, aka World Wind for Linux. It uses the same dataset as World Wind, but with a client written in Java/OpenGL
http://ww2d.csoft.net - procdaddy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20Google Earth = fun for hours.
NASA World Wind = fun for days. - da404lewzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Did you all forget that Google and NASA have been partners since September 28, 2005?? I really wouldn't be surprised if they get merged together at some point.. i mean, Google Earth wasn't even made by Google, it was acquired from Keyhole in 2004. [http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5428685.html]
So, ya, i can see all this getting merged in to Google Earth. World Wind may have more features, but NASA is looking to Google for help organizing the world. Google even gets to build a one million square foot R&D center at NASA's Ames Research Center. [http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2005/05_50AR.html]
Go Google! Go Google! :D - venir, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20This is actually very cool. Well done NASA!!!
- Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Very good job Nasa, as a "google fanboy" I have to say nasa has the biggest advantage here (obviosly..) so hey, if you can give us something better, we'll use it!
But to nasa: don't you go trying to start a search engine ;) - jbus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16@ Hooj
Yeah, since every Mac Book user wants to pay a ridiculous amount for a Windows license just to use this software. - Sanchez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11NASA World wind was out quiet a bit before Google earth so technically it should be google giving NWW a run for it's money.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12open source! even better! :D
this is going to be fun - neave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Google Earth = pretty pictures of your house (popular for the general public)
NASA World Wind = seriously useful for anyone in the geo-spatial business
but the gap is closing between these two extremes. - neave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Doesn't WorldWind count as "education"?
- Quactaur, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13In case you hadn't checked, this is two years old. I used to use it, but it was a massive download (though it is far smaller now), and a lot of the extra features go unused. Google earth displaced this almost immediatly because it was so much smaller and had a bigger range of maps.
- piratebill, on 10/12/2007, -12/+20"Yeah, since every Mac Book user wants to pay a ridiculous amount for a Windows license just to use this software."
Why not? they already pay a ridiculous amount for mac hardware. - fogster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@Banborzled: Open-source != developed at no cost.
Of course, I think this is actually one of the neater things my tax dollars have gone to, so I'm not about to complain. I just can't agree that the fact that the source to something was released means it didn't cost any money to develop. - hollycrapacholy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yeah, I cant imagine any branch of the government needing some kind of mapping application like this for say, education, borders, Katrina relief ....
- tdkyo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Remember, NASA's Worldwind was out for a while compared to Google's Earth (echoing Sanchez's comments below)
- illegalamigo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12sorry fanboys, nasa > google
- jiltedcitizen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Ya been around for a while but cool.
- Nodren, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8world wind was the first, and because it was open source allowed others to follow suite, hense how google earth came out... its only natural that it includes new ground breaking features like this, i hope that these get incorporated into other products such as google earth.... not because i like google earth better, but because it will bring this to a wider audience, just as before.
- Hooj, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10If he has a Mac Book Pro, he can dual boot into Windows via Boot Camp or run both OS's at the same time via Parallels.
- altjeringa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Should have waited a week or two, a newer version is coming out shortly.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"I can't believe this hasn't been covered more on digg..."
Maybe because it's several years old. WW hasn't gone too far since its earlier releases, and it's still a bit more of a scientific version than GE. It's better in some ways, yes, especially for interesting near-real time layers, but it sucks when you compare resolutions, road maps, city locating, etc.
They aren't really competing in the same market despite similarities on the surface. One is aimed at the science community, the other for general use besides science. - Highstand, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5For you geoscientists out there I came across Dapple. Similar to NWW and GE but more geology/geophysics centered. http://dapple.geosoft.com/
- jkendel, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9And i'll start complaining when it's java...
- Hooj, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5And the point of this comment was?
- sbougerolle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There is a link there to download source code, for those complaining it's Windows-only.
- AvatarKava, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@jbus
I love people who just read the top, don't check out any of the comments, and then post a blistering response.
All of the data used by WW was collected by other projects, many of which were funded by taxpayer dollars; however, WW itself is an open-source project designed to pull all of that data together into a single application that is useful for quite a few people out there. WW itself doesn't receive funding, and not a single cent of your tax dollars have gone to make it possible. Rest easy. - Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7@neoform
It's open source. - flashinfected, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"They aren't really competing in the same market despite similarities on the surface. One is aimed at the science community, the other for general use besides science."
Exactly. Took the words right out of my mouth. - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I take it you did not actually try to use the link. It does not work.
They are working on a Java port, then perhaps a wider range of people can run it... - flashinfected, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can adjust the terrain exaggeration by pressing 1+. 1 for 1x, 2 for 2x, etc.
- Denelson83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well then, you could always ask the developers of World Wind to obtain a free source of street-level data, or ask the guys at Google to sign a licensing agreement for top-notch geo data for Google Earth.
- duwamish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This has been around for a while - however somehting that recently made me go wow was the virtual earth plugin, that adds *really high resolution tiles* to the UK using MSNs virtual earth http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Add-on:Virtual_Earth
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2World wind has street level detail, just click on the USGS Urban map on the top bar and you can get just as close as if you were using google earth. Of course you're not getting street names and building names like Google earth, but you do get the detail.
- DarkHack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Would be cool if we all can control satelite from our PC.
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Also, people should note that if they really do what the "hey that's my house" aspect, you can change layers and put on the Landsat urban map (I think it's called something like that). It's a high res urban map, I'm actually pretty sure you can zoom in just as much if not more on World Wind with that filter active.
- neko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2chillax. OK, it depends on proprietary stuff, and believe me, I really hate DirectX and the hell it's given me... but that doesn't mean it's not open. You've got all the code you need to recompile World Wind. It's open.
Java's not necessarily free and libre and open (and I don't like C-hash personally either)
OpenGL has proprietary implementations of it, just as Wine is an open implementation of the DirectHex APIs. - donolsen1155, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22 different tools, if you've ever used both.
World Wind doesn't provide street level detail, and Google Earth doesn't provide the geographical data. They are both great at what they do. - vekron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually it has been covered here, even more than once (I think). But that wasn't recently.
- mazza558, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not bad, but the terrain rendering is a bit over-the-top.
Also, it froze my GPU twice. - d2nd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it was meant as a compliment.
NASA hasn't really been on their game recently, at times actually borderline incompetent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter - Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i like World Wind, but Google Earth is much more intuitive, while World Wind has a prety long learning curve
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