Worldwind

teamkittens · Post by **teamkittens** » 04 November 04 5:00 pm

Cool tool that I didn't know existed: <a href="http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/worldwind/">WorldWind</a>. Not particularily useful for navigation but interesting. Anyone already had a play with it?

aussiecoder · Post by **aussiecoder** » 27 November 04 6:23 pm

I've loaded a copy on my 800mhz/512mb system and it doesn't take long before it slows my whole machine to a crawl. I'm going to try and run it on a 3ghz/1gb system in the next couple of days to see if its just a "grunt thing".

The user interface is a little "simple", but the images are quite spectacular.

Any of you with Big Pond access can download the program (and images for australia and other parts) from

http://files.bigpond.com/library/index. ... cat&id=959

The downloads will be "full speed" and I think they are free too. I'm not a BigPond user, so I maybe wrong about the "free" bit. The rest of us can look at the site, but have to ask a "friend" to download them for us.

I've just realised the source code to the application is installed with the software. It's C# (.Net). It maybe possible to build a frontend to link GC and these satetite images, hmmmm,

Slider & Smurf · Post by **Slider & Smurf** » 27 November 04 9:51 pm

Or you could just grab the December issue of Australian Personal Computer magazine, and grab it off the disc on the front cover - but you will need a DVD drive to read it. Doesn't affect your ISP download count at all

aussiecoder · Post by **aussiecoder** » 28 November 04 6:54 am

I saw the APC about an hour after making the posting. As I've already downloaded the software and aussie images and I could find nothing else that cought my eye, I didn't buy it.

Does APC have just the software, or do they have the cached (in the original computer file sense) images as well ?

Slider & Smurf · Post by **Slider & Smurf** » 28 November 04 9:04 am

Just the program - so you'll still need to get the images from somewhere.