nasa world wind

[badgolferman]

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.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

 

[Sparky]

World Wind lets you zoom...

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

Really cool software but proceed w/caution: Worldwind 1.3 consistently
locks up my Win2k SP4.

May have something to do with graphics, it requires latest DirectX and I
have ATI's IGP9100.

regards,
-Sparky

 

[John Corliss]

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.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

Note requirements:

"System Requirements

* Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
* Intel Pentium 3, 1 GHz, or AMD Athlon or higher
* 256 MB of RAM
* 3D Graphics Card
o nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra
o ATI Radeon 7500
o Intel Extreme Graphics 2
* DSL / Cable connection or faster
* 2 GB of disk space"

as well as:

"World Wind requires that you have .NET runtime environment and DirectX
installed."

 

[Jeff Needle]

I went to the NASA site to find their program for global mapping. I was
amazed to find it was a 180 meg download! No way I can do that.

 

[pip78]

Really cool software but proceed w/caution: Worldwind 1.3 consistently

locks up my Win2k SP4.

May have something to do with graphics, it requires latest DirectX and I
have ATI's IGP9100.

regards,
-Sparky

It has never locked up on my Win2k SP4 box with a cheapo NVidia graphics
card.

 

[badgolferman]

Really cool software but proceed w/caution: Worldwind 1.3
consistently locks up my Win2k SP4.

May have something to do with graphics, it requires latest DirectX
and I have ATI's IGP9100.

regards,
-Sparky

It is working on my W2K SP4 box right now. It is a very cool program.

 

[dadiOH]

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on
Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery...

It would be nice if the site ever actually gets around to serving Lansat
data...

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[Vic Dura]

"World Wind requires that you have .NET runtime environment and DirectX
installed."

Thanks for the warning. I'll skip anything that requires .NET

 

[Helen]

Thanks for the warning. I'll skip anything that requires .NET

BTW when I ran EasyCleaner.... .NET got yellow dots. (suspicous or too difficult to
determine)
.... all else was green...(good to go). I left it though because sometime ago I
installed it for some
reason which I do not now recall, nonetheless, AFAIK it does no harm nor interfers
with
anything. OS=XP on the machine in question.

 

[peter f]

I went to the NASA site to find their program for global mapping. I
was amazed to find it was a 180 meg download! No way I can do that.

Come to Frankfurt, DE, it's a matter of less than 10 minutes with DSL 3000.

 

[RedFox]

Come to Frankfurt, DE, it's a matter of less than 10 minutes with DSL

3000.

I did it in California over 2 nights.

Amazing US pictures. Less good for other parts of the globe, unless I'm
mising something..

RF

 

[badgolferman]

3000.

I did it in California over 2 nights.

Amazing US pictures. Less good for other parts of the globe, unless
I'm mising something..

RF

Yes, that is true. Digital Ortho has the best resolution and Urban
Ortho is the best for urban areas that have been photographed.

 

[DaveH]

Yes, that is true. Digital Ortho has the best resolution and Urban
Ortho is the best for urban areas that have been photographed.

This program is great and I thought that I was seeing world live from the
great beyond until I noticed that a bridge in my urban area was being
constructed. I have been driving over that bridge for three years now.

It's still an awesome program,

Dave H.

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

3000.

I did it in California over 2 nights.

Amazing US pictures. Less good for other parts of the globe, unless I'm
mising something..

Google Maps is probably as good or better for North America and there is no
huge download.

Here are some interesting images from Google Maps:

http://perljam.net/notes/interesting-google-satellite-maps/