Bull's Rambles

At long last NASA has given credit to World Wind, Patrick Hogan, Project Manager for World Wind at NASA Ames, has just let me know that NASA has awarded this years Software of the Year award to NASA World Wind.
Details are posted on the community run  forum at WorldWind Central, Patrick goes on to thank [...]

I was reading the forum at last and came across someone mentioning Danish imagery in World Wind Java, this seemed a bit unfair to .NET users so I downloaded the WWJ SDK and converted the data from Scankort to a .NET xml, I also included the California NAIP (slow speeds) and open street map layers.
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The NASA World Wind Servers will be down for maintenance this weekend, this means unless you have your data cached locally you won’t get any imagery, for .NET you will also experience long load times and possibly no toolbar, for Java apps I’m not quite sure what problems will occur.
The WorldWind Central server [...]

Thanks to SchoeningJohannes for giving me links to these cool NASA World Wind Java videos, I have added them to the World Wind YouTube group, so have a look and enjoy.

The Risk game is pretty neat, but my favourite is the use of multi touch combined with a Wii fit board for navigation combined with [...]

Chad has written a nice article on the recent World Wind Conference aimed at Government agencies, the main focus seems to have been World Wind Java, but as shown by the John Hopkins University .NET is still used, for more information please visit The Earth is Square, and if anyone is interested in funding World [...]

An interesting sounding project based on NASA World Wind Java, although the site is very sparse on details it does make it sound like it’s the start of  SkyNet.
From GIS Development -
New Delhi, India: Orkash has showcased its Web 3.0 solution for automated intelligence creation.
Designed on the enhanced version of NASA’s Earth browser, World Wind [...]