Comments on: Google Earth 4.3 http://www.bullsworld.net/2008/04/21/google-earth-43/ This and that, mainly NASA World Wind news Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:54:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Matt Giger http://www.bullsworld.net/2008/04/21/google-earth-43/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Matt Giger Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:31:03 +0000 http://bullsworld2007.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-373 I agree with you assesment on many levels. I love that they finally got atmospheric fragment shaders, however they need to use a better algorithm or tweak the settings. The MIE component of the scattering equations (those are the heavy particles that give us a reddish sunset) is too underrepresented, or perhaps absent. I have been searching how I could put some of the nice layers like National Geographic and some of the current humanitarian projects with layers on GE into EarthBrowser, but they are not available. I guess an open format is great for them, but are these non-profit companies being compelled to give Google an exclusive right to distribute or are they just so underfunded that they don't have the website resources to distribute their own data in the open KML format I agree with you assesment on many levels. I love that they finally got atmospheric fragment shaders, however they need to use a better algorithm or tweak the settings. The MIE component of the scattering equations (those are the heavy particles that give us a reddish sunset) is too underrepresented, or perhaps absent.

I have been searching how I could put some of the nice layers like National Geographic and some of the current humanitarian projects with layers on GE into EarthBrowser, but they are not available. I guess an open format is great for them, but are these non-profit companies being compelled to give Google an exclusive right to distribute or are they just so underfunded that they don’t have the website resources to distribute their own data in the open KML format

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