Bull's Rambles

The guys over at EOLi (Earth Observation Link), part of esa, have updated their catalogue viewing and ordering application, it now uses NASA World Wind Java to allow you to view data on a 3D globe. To activate the World Wind 3D map, you click on the “Map Settings” icon on top of the map, [...]

To follow up on my post about the new nightly builds of World Wind Java I have put together a video clip, also I didn’t mention it in the last post but the builds are version 0.6 of the SDK. I’ll put a short description of how I made the video at the bottom of [...]

Fresh news from Tom Gaskins lead developer of World Wind Java, a nightly build server has been made available to the public, he also explains why SVN is not currently viable for the project. As I mentioned earlier, it’s been difficult to find time to get the code into a solid release state and do [...]

Thanks to willoxh for this bit of news, it seems theAustralian Government agency Geoscience Australia are using World Wind Java to show off their new Radiometric data, good on you mates.

It looks like World Wind Java may have some competition, I read about this on Slashgeo, it sounds pretty interesting, from the Spatial Cloud website – SpatialCloud is a new way of viewing, creating, and distributing maps. The project includes an independent open-source 3D Viewer (globe) and flexible commercial Web Services to handle enterprise-class processing, [...]

And here we go again, Google release a beta API that lets you display a virtual globe on your website and the world goes ooh wow! We have had a World Wind Java API for over a year and have many users already. There is a big difference between our API and theirs though, with [...]