virtual earth globe

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dave said:
Is there such a thing???
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I've come across a well done animated gif that showed the earth
spinning. It was very detailed making the file very large (about 90
megs) maybe you can look for that?
 
dave said:
Is there such a thing???
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Yes.

The Earth screen saver displays an image of the Earth as currently
illuminated by the Sun, from a variety of viewpoints. You can view the
Earth from the Sun (day side), the night side, from the Moon, or from an
arbitrary altitude above any point on the globe specified by latitude
and longitude. Day and night regions of the globe are shown based on the
current date and time. The image of the Earth shifts location on the
screen every 10 minutes to avoid burning in the phosphor in one location.

The Earth Screen Saver is available exclusively for 32-bit Windows
systems such as Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthscr/


enjoy!

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dave said:
Is there such a thing???
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A number of apps are listed here:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_BUSINESS-HOME.php#8.01Astronomy

and you can DL Xearth complete with ACF participants' locations here:

http://www.woundedmoon.org/xearth/


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Son said:
Yes.

The Earth screen saver displays an image of the Earth as currently
illuminated by the Sun, from a variety of viewpoints. You can view the
Earth from the Sun (day side), the night side, from the Moon, or from an
arbitrary altitude above any point on the globe specified by latitude
and longitude. Day and night regions of the globe are shown based on the
current date and time. The image of the Earth shifts location on the
screen every 10 minutes to avoid burning in the phosphor in one location.

The Earth Screen Saver is available exclusively for 32-bit Windows
systems such as Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthscr/


enjoy!

Son Of Spy
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Not only that, but if you don't use screensavers, you can put a shortcut
to the screensaver file on your start menu and open it at will. Nice
screensaver. Thanks, Alan.
 
Is there such a thing???
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all the responses are good, but there is another one which can be very
useful....in World Time, whose main function is multi-location time
keeping and clock synchronization, there is a globe display with "A
2D or 3D world map capable of plotting any location by Lat/Long and
displaying the part of the globe currently in darkness"

You can read directly distances between two points in various
measurements.

Many other features.

http://www.pawprint.net/wt/features.php
 
Is there such a thing???
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How detailed do you want it?

A freeware screensaver of a realistic Earth hanging in space is
available from http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/

If you are talking about an interactive globe, where you can
zero in on individual points down to useful local areas of, say,
county size maps .. then there is a freeware program called
AmiGlobe 98. Not very detailed, but adequate for beginning
geography lessons, and it includes .MID file anthems for each
nation and shows its flag. Version 98 was the last freeware
version; others since are shareware. It is available from:

http://www.designskey.com/amiglo98.zip

I just now tried it at 10:15 am est on 29 April to make certain
it was a valid URL.
 
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How detailed do you want it?

A freeware screensaver of a realistic Earth hanging in space is
available from http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/

If you are talking about an interactive globe, where you can
zero in on individual points down to useful local areas of, say,
county size maps .. then there is a freeware program called
AmiGlobe 98. Not very detailed, but adequate for beginning
geography lessons, and it includes .MID file anthems for each
nation and shows its flag. Version 98 was the last freeware
version; others since are shareware. It is available from:

http://www.designskey.com/amiglo98.zip

I just now tried it at 10:15 am est on 29 April to make certain
it was a valid URL.
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http://www.earthquakemap.com/
 
On that special day, John Corliss, ([email protected]) said...
"QuakeMap is a powerful GPS/mapping program for your Windows computer.
It can be downloaded here for free. The trial mode allows you to use
most features indefinitely. When you need to unlock certain powerful
features, a License Key can be ordered here."
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Hmm, so it is half free, half not. How may I call such a thing? A
halfware?


Gabriele Neukam

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Gabriele said:
Hmm, so it is half free, half not. How may I call such a thing? A
halfware?
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Not only that, but:

"Note: this program requires .NET Framework Windows component."

also:

"Please note: the blocks of grey associated with expiration of the trial
(after 20 days from the first use) are semi-transparent, randomly
positioned (every time the map is drawn they change location) and are
labeled with the word "Evaluation". These will go away when you unlock
the program."

I call it simply "adware".
 
John Corliss said:
Not only that, but:

"Note: this program requires .NET Framework Windows component."

also:

"Please note: the blocks of grey associated with expiration of the trial
(after 20 days from the first use) are semi-transparent, randomly
positioned (every time the map is drawn they change location) and are
labeled with the word "Evaluation". These will go away when you unlock
the program."

I call it simply "adware".
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I call it "thanksforthewarningware"
 
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