Bull's Rambles

Finally some World Wind news, Patrick Murris, one of World Wind’s foremost developers, will be hosting a World Wind workshop at GeoTunis 2010. The conference will be held between the 29th of November and the 3rd of December 2010 in Tunis and will be host to many GIS experts, the World Wind Workshop will comprise [...]

I’m a bit late with this news but Hooked on the Fly is now airing on The Sportsmans Channel, the satellite imagery used in this show was all created using NASA World Wind and uses only non-commercial satellite and orthoimagery. The air times are – Sunday 6:30 PM Tuesday 10:30 PM Wednesday 11:30 AM Thursday 2:00 AM Friday 6:30 AM [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

I have moved the World Wind video channel across to the new beta channel, or YouTube 2.0 as they call it, I know a lot of people don’t like the new layout but I kind of do, although more customization options would be nice, while I was at it I pruned the World Wind group, [...]

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 will [...]