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NASA Releases World Viewer
Klatoo55 writes "Nasa has released a comprehensive world viewing tool that allows you to zoom from planetary resolution down to where you can pick out individual streets. Really cool, but it needs a good internet connection and a decent graphics card. There's all sorts of interesting features, such as the ability to tilt your view for a flight-sim like experience and a data display feature that shows current natural disasters, political boundaries, weather patterns, and landmarks on the Earth's surface, all while providing a dynamic satellite's eye view of the planet."
This is cool. I can see my house! Now if my neighbor had been sunbathing at the time...
I ran to check out the sit and it is Cooooool, but Nasa's gonna have an astronimical bandwith bill today :)
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I've been watching the weather and all sorts of neat stuff on the NOAA GEOS site for years. Not great for spying on your city, but great animations for tracking weather and hurricanes
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will it run in Linux?
Recommended Specifications * Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional * Intel Pentium 3 1 ghz or AMD Athlon or higher * 256 MB of RAM * 3D Graphics Card o nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra o ATI Radeon 7500 o Intel Extreme Graphics 2 * DSL / Cable connection or faster * 2 GB of disk space The requirements are a bit high, but the demo pictures they show are quite impressive. It does appear to be opensource, wonder how long it'll be before someone makes a Linux port, and ties to a newsfeed! Trouble in the Middle East? Lets take a look!
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There's no Linux or Mac version. This means I'll actually have to pull the damn windows box out of the closet I stashed it in.
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that's just cool.
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I can finally see the world outside of my Mother's basement!!!!
This looks cool, but the download is 259M! Server should be slashdotted soon. How about setting a torrent someone? (That is, someone who is not behind a firewall on a work computer.)
I had a subscription to Keyhole World Viewer for a while, it's the same type of thing with a shnazzy interface and features. You can download it for a free trial at their site, I haven't tried the NASA one so I don't know how it compares.
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...since it's a 259 MB download.
What a perfect (and missed) opportunity for NASA to use BitTorrent instead of a huge zip file. Ah well.
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The subject says it all... well maybe not... shouldn't this be open source??? At least???
I wonder if NASA made a version of this for the NSA with ummmm a bit higher resolution.
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Will we be able to zoom in on the smoking ruins of the slashdotted webserver? :)
Really cool, but it needs a good internet connection
Are you talking about me or their server?
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Sorry I don't believe you really work at homeland security and are first posting. But your other comments seem possible to me.
Pretty cool stuff. The developer says the core will compile on Mono, but obviously there isn't DX for Mono.
Maybe someone can think about a Manged-DX style wrapper around OpenGL for the Mono Project.
Can't think it would be easy though. DX does a lot for you.
The source is supposed to be placed on SourceForge soon. Should be a fun project to hack on.
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The power to view a planet is insignificant next to the power of a slashdotting.
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Hah, not even a convincing troll.
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Now you can play "enemy of the state" at home, without having to retask satellites on your own.
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Will I be able to zoom in on Area 51? I don't want to try it out just to find out it has been censored out.
That site is DOWN, brother! Boy, I can't even imagine a more /.-able topic than a world zoom tool like that, and we shot them down in a blaze of glory. I would bet the astronauts can see the plume of smoke coming from the server in space. We could probably see it on the map too, if it weren't fried into oblivion.
Anyone have a dupe? I guess I could just go outside and see the world for myself... nah!
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For those of you who like this sort of software, check out Celestia. It is a 3D space simulator, and lets you visit objects in our solar system and a bunch of stars. It's really amazing, and it's open source! My sister uses it for teaching astronomy to the neighborhood kids in their home-schooling class.
Has anyone gotten this to work and locate area 51? I can only imagine that zooming in on sensative locations is probably blocked by the application. Cant hurt to ask though.
I use to use Terraformer, but their images were so outdated.(most from 1991) The link doesn't seem to work though. If it is similar to this it would be great.
"but it needs a good internet connection and a decent graphics card"
The good news: surrounded by PCs with graphics cards twice as fast as the fastest ones you can buy in a shop.
The bad news: that means I'm still at work at 6pm Friday. Let's see how Doom3 runs on an nVidia quadro FX4000...
So will they add a burning server icon to the ones for fires and other disasters? From the looks of the site (first two pages then loading..........) they have one server to pinpoint already.
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If the version released for the public itself is that comprehensive, think of the view of the big brother out there.
Hope my thick black hair and beard'd consume all the light rays and reflect nothing.
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It currently only works with ONE planet!
Everything is a threat to national security. There are a half dozen other free websites that offer nearly the same services as this one. Soon, the EU will have its own version of GPS which can be accessed by the public. If someone really wants to kill others, they will find a way regardless. Has anyone noticed that most security implementations after the attacks tend to make people feel safer without making them truly safer? No security is better than a false sense of security; at least people would be on their toes instead of walking around oblivious.
What about geocaching? This would actually make it more challenging.
Here's Google's cache of the features page.
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Due to the latency with which the images are updated, this can pose some awkward situations. Imagine a geek looking at their neighborhood, noticing a beautiful nude sunbather next door. Geek runs outside to peek through a knot-hole in the fence to discover that the sunbather has aged 50 years since the last time that the picture was updated...ewww.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, go into business for themselves.
Now it's more like Enemy of the Slashdotter-With-Too-Much-Time.
Muhahhahahahaha.
Pah. Windows only. It's not like it's the prevalent OS, is it? Although they give away the source code. Overall, D-, but B for trying.
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No worse than Terraserver, or all the other sources of aerial photographs. Or maps. Or just fucking walking around a city looking for easy targets.
And I doubt any terrorist is going to bother with a sophisticated GPS-guided missile when a simple truck will do.
Nice troll.
Yea, really... can someone post a mirror? :)
total perspective vortex??? (maybe reversed..)
Here is a direct download link for the software-- "World Wind".
Download away!
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Here is a commercial site but you can use it for free with watermarks. You can zoom to a persons house. All you need to type in the address of the place. Pretty nice, check it out. Only problem is that some of the images are a couple years old... but then how often do streets and house move/change physcially?
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For a high-res view but user-interface nightmare, GlobeXplorer has free and subscription imagery online that incorporates aerial photography for less than 1 meter resolution (like way zoomed in.)
Of course, what roxorz is that the NASA prog is free. At least for now!
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Hope someone would integrate this in to Celestia or the other way around. Explore the deepest corners of the galaxy and be in your neighbourhood in a splitsecond.. Nice..
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Tin-based paints to keep those beams away from your house.
Ah, yes, Mr Troll.. but you see the Government already thought of that when they enacted Public Law 100-333 back in 1988, restricting the use and sale of tin-based paint.
Those rascals disguised it as having something to do with threats to marine life and so on.. But now you know!
"Nothing to see there - please move on"
The site is slashdotted, but is it anything like Keyhole?
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you can still download the program from here
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I wonder what engine the builder used to design that world? It's pretty fantastic! And the level design, simply AMAZING!
Any GIS type application is considered a threat to our national security. If you take a look at these aerial views of DC you can see how the federal government had the overhead views of the whitehouse and the capitol removed (or blocked). The last thing the government wants is to be responsible for a terrorist act. They feel that tools like this are useful to the general public, so they make them available. At the same time, they can see the emminent threat, so they limit its capabilities.
Goresat was the mock name for a satellite that Al Gore pushed through NASA, despite the dubious science behind it and that Gore voted to reduce NASA budget more often than not. Its intention was to provide a live image of earth, I think from a Lagrange point.
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ok, it's election year, but next year there will be a world beyond US borders again, don't be surprised ;)
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Isn't this just the terraserver project?
MS has a site for this, there's obviously the terraserver homepage, and lots of other sites that bleed the data from the terraserver to display it as a service to their own users...
So, basically - this is just a neater interface to the data on the terraserver...
I remember being able to lookup a satellite image of my house back in 1998.
I can't see the interface, because it's slashdot'd. But, I do recall being able to do a search by address and it bring up exactly my house.
You could also click on a global map, and navigate your way to what you wanted to see. (Good luck finding your house that way, bub!)
The elk hunt starts in 2 1/2 weeks, I look forward to the day I can bring my laptop and use a live feed to track the elk herd... :}
I know, I know, it will never happen, but a guy can dream.
Maybe this is a good problem for an aerial kite camera solution
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Am I the only one who sees a Stephenson's Snow Crash reference in this?
Can't RTFA, since it's Slashdotted.
Can't run the code, since my Win-machine at home is a dual-boot with only Win98SE.
Can't run it on my work laptop, since even though it's Win2k, it doesn't meet the other requirements.
Even if I could get to the web site, I don't know that the information is readily available there *and* on Terraserver to really compare the two.
I've found my house on Terraserver, though the image was several years old. The field wasn't that tight, and got a bit more than our whole neighborhood. Resolution aside, is there any information about the age of the pictures?
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
...Keyhole, I presume? I've played around with it before, but a free version is even better, I guess.
Just imagine what some tech savvy stalkers will be able to do with this
magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:NRXOGXXAMVAJWZUHY7W2A2UY7R BABIN4.IDTEAFQAH7Q76AIJ7RYFX7FIXFSYY4Y3XYEPTIA&dn= worldwind-1_2.zip
Be sure to remove slashcode spaces.
When will these government agencies learn to stick to their knitting?!?!?
Nasa is the "National Aeronautics and Space Administration." The surface of the earth is neither aeronautical nor space (duh, it's a surface).
Now if the Department of Homeland Security were offering this, I think it would make sense!
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Is a law still valid if it's slashdotted?
all I get is:
Temporary file open error. Display failed.
I think this is the same error Bush got trying to read the constitution...
In related news World veiwer from NASA got pulled due to the fact it could prove AREA 51 does exsist.
Boy, this is a throw-back to the good ole days. Excluding all the great work done in the Linux community, this is the best free software package (that's great for just fooling around with) I can remember being released for Windows based PC's in a long time.
Didn't take long for NASA to get /.'ed - or did the men in black take it offline already? Guess I'll find out 6 hours from now when I try the site again...
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Why is it so slow if the program is a C#/.NET Win app that uses DirectX? Surely no one on Slashdot is using that configuration. We're all Linux or BSD and OpenGL, right? ;)
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Actually, the government erected huge white platforms above parts of the city to obscure the stuff that satellites were seeing. It blocked out the sun and all the plants died. They realized it was a bad idea, took the platforms down, and just used Paintbrush to erase the parts they didn't like.
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let the spamination begin!
too much talk , no link to visit, makes me sick
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Also cached of course.
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let the spamination begin!
uhh, ok so they give u access to this shit but i cant fricken zoom down on area 51, all it is is desert, kinda ripoff that i cant see secret government installations.
Only problem is that some of the images are a couple years old... but then how often do streets and house move/change physcially?
I live in a mobile home, YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
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We just slashdotted the World.
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Too bad for the slashdotting - it sounds cool, but this would be gone anyway as soon as the Department of Homeland Security hears about it.
I can hear Tom Ridge now.... "NASA.... DID..... **WHAT**?!?!!!!?!?!!?!"
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Any bets on how long it'll be until video of this app running will be in every single Powerpoint presentation you see? I can just imagine people using this thing whenever they talk about a new area, showing a zoom-out of the presentation locale, showing a far-away view, then zooming back in at the locale being spoken of.
I can't believe no one's mentioned terraserver (http://terraserver.microsoft.com/) yet. Sure, it only covers the U.S. and is a microsoft sponsored site (in conjunction w/ the USGS), but it's totally free, and has detailed images of (almost) the entire country.
Tom: "Terrorists could use this to pinpoint places to strike." Powell: "Tom, I have a Hammond Street Guide to Washington D.C. in my back seat that they could use for that. Let's be realis..." Tom: "George, Dick, how in the hell did he get out of the basement? Agents Smith and Johnson, please escort Mr. Powell back to his cell. And get the CEO of Hammond on the phone." News Reporter: "Quickie Marts all over the country were raided by the FBI today in a massive crackdown on the selling of maps. Store clerks were rounded up and shipped to Guantanamo to possibly face charges of providing material aid to terrorists...or was that tourists. Either way, if they're ever actually charged, I'm sure the secret tribunal will execute justice...or was that Lady Justice...to the fullest extent possible."
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The site seems to be slowing down under the /. pressure. Could anyone set up a mirror?
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Friend of mine works for these guys, and their product kicks ass. Haven't yet tried the NASA version to compare, but check out http://www.keyhole.com/ for a great (for fee) whole earth viewer.
I think it's $40/yr subscription, 7-day free trial or somesuch for the basic version. Very, very fun toy.
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Keyhole makes a tool that has more detail than this, although they only have data for urban centers.
"If you take a look at these aerial views of DC you can see how the federal government had the overhead views of the whitehouse and the capitol removed (or blocked)"
When the MI5 building was used in a Bond film, someone mentioned that MI5 were worried about the security implications.
To quote: "they feared that filming might reveal the location of one of London's most distinctive landmarks"
It seems obvious that removing the White House from maps is good for security - after all, if nobody knows it's there, they can't attack it?
The server is down, down, down. This sounds like a real cool app. I wonder how long I must wait until NASA gets the server sorted out and de-smokes. Any word on a mirror? Or a torrent?
To anyone who managed to get the program before the site was slashdotted, could you take a look at North Korea along the Chinese border? Is the crater from the "mushroom cloud" explosion visible?
Celestia is very cool, but for teaching astronomy I would recommend Stellarium (GPL):
http://stellarium.free.fr/
It gives you a photo-realistic sky from any position on earth, plus the ability to zoom in on planets and nebulas, show coordinate grids, etc. The CVS version even has constellation art.
And we used to take the piss out of the Russians for having holes in their maps?
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I found your house and i saw your car but i've no idea where you are from the dial a view. Tire scraps on the federal roads look like crash landed crows from the dial a view.
"NASA Releases Word Viewer"
I thought maybe NASA had developed some kind of program that could be used as a simple viewer for MS Word documents. I wonder why MS hasn't released something like this. Oh wait, I know why.
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You've just slashdotted the entire planet.
Well, if you take a look at the maps you'll see that they removed a significant portion of the national mall to cover up the area that the whitehouse takes up. They definitely exceeded the boundries of the whitehouse grounds by a few hundred (or maybe thousand) feet.
If you were planning some kind of ground based attack you really wouldn't get any use from the map provided in the link above. Sure you'd get a general picture of where the whitehouse is located (its one of the white blobs for those who don't know), but you certainly couldn't make any plans for storming the grounds.
I really want a satellite map of this.
Thanks!
KS
This sounds a lot like the "Earth" app in Neil Stephenson's "Snowcrash". Just not real-time and with as much detail :) Still, would be cool to see it integrated into Second Life or one of the other virtual worlds....
-JT
This sounds really cool. Too bad the site is bogged down. I look forward to checking out.
Actually, Terraserver is finally updating their up-to-a-decade-old black and white satellite photos of the entire United States (and Canada and Mexico). They're updating them with color photos from 2002, but they haven't done a lot of the major cities. My guess is - fear of security. For example, some of the buildings in the Washington, D.C. photos are blurred. I don't think it really makes a difference to security though. People who want to cause harm don't need satellite images.
Also...SpaceImaging.com's good - they have lots of famous places in their gallery, as well as a bunch of universities.
I'm sure Mr. Burns was pleased with the increased reliance on power consumption while the sun was blocked out...
keyhole has a BBS http://bbs.keyhole.com/ with thousands of stories about about interesting places on the world. It can be as entertaining as the program itself.
Zoom in on Bahrain
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How often do streets/houses move/change physically?
...crap. It's just my neighbor walking across the hot concrete next to her pool. And she's fully clothed.
...find out that she's never actually there, but that her Puerto Rican pool boy is making "waves" in the pool with the, uh, other Puerto Rican pool boy.
...watch as a white page pops up with the notice "US GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS PROHIBIT THE DISTRIBUTION OF SATELLITE IMAGERY OF KNOWN SENSITIVE US MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THESE INSTALLATIONS, VISIT YOUR LOCAL ARMED SERVICES RECRUITER!"
You're missing the point, man!
With AN UP TO DATE VERSION OF THIS TOOL, I don't have to wonder what that heavy breathing and "Oooh-ahh" is on the other side of my neighbor's backyard fence. Next to the pool. I can turn on my computer, enter my neighbor's address, zoom in, and discover...
Wait -- I have a better example. I can find out the address of a hot looking starlet, enter it into the tool, zoom in on her mansion, and...
Sigh -- alright -- here's the best example yet. I can enter the relative address of the top secret Area 51 base, zoom in, and...
Damn...maybe 2 year old pictures of streets/houses are fine after all. Dammit.
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Put it on http://SuprNova.org If its not up by the time I get it downloaded, I'll put it up myself.
Sorry but a slashdoting of a 250MB file is just just a bit more than we had planned for. The software you are looking for is quite exceptional. We suggest you bookmark it and come back latter when the flood is finished.
I couldn't get a response from NASA's site but the Coral p2p mirror is working well for me. NASA's download page held up for me though.
We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience.
A NASA site has officially been slashdotted! Upon trying to download the file I'm getting:
"We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience."
"We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience."
Now Ill be able to look for missing things in my garden without leaving the computer!
THe sites is slashdotted, but it sounds similar to keyhole.com - which is also has 3d data.
from http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/archives/worldwind- 1_2.zip
We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience.
We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience. Noooooo!!! Too late...
I would have thought n.a.s.a was bigger than anything slashdotter's could dish out. impressed!
I've seen better.
Not a true geek run'n their server if he can't find the spell check. Seems NASA has lost a lot of it's geekishness overall.
"We are sorry but the slashdoting..."
*^ slashdotting
Yea, it's a slow day here too....
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Very useful for spying on old images of neighbors.
It can be viewed at The National Map.
... where's Osama Bin Laden?
If you are expecting something here, I don't know what to tell you...
For those of us who don't run Windows and/or would rather play with the data directly, is it available (and documented)?
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nVidia's had a program out for quite a while now that can do this. It's not free, but you can get a full-version limited-time trial at
m e. html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nzone_keyholenv_ho
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This sounds a lot like "You Are Here" from Snow Crash (by Neal Stephenson).
Get the data a little closer to real-time, and we're talking about some VERY cool technology here...
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You shouldn't verb words.
At least they were quick to change to a text-only version of the linked page, but I guess that they're still having some bandwidth problems.
So, who's going to post a Torrent to the download?
Bonus points if you also post magnet:// (gnutella) and ed2k:// (edonkey) links.
Wasnt it just last week that there was talk of restricting such access from the common man for 'our own safety' ?
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Site is slow, as you've noticed. Try this:
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NYUD.net caching mirror thingy
Why don't people just start using the nyud cache in the articles for sites that will probably get slashdotted? As everyone knows, NASA servers always get pounded into the ground when they get posted here.
Anyway, click on the link above. I have gone into the screenshots page, so those are probably the only two that are cached right now. Click around and get the rest in there for me.
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I wonder if future versions of this will integrate road maps, and some sort of mapquest like function. I'd plan trips that i had no intention of taking, just to see them on a zoomed out picture of the globe.
another please? and thank you.
So this is what you get when you put a bunch of rocket scientists together and tell them to write a "Hello, World?" app?
-JT
Unless I'm mistaken, making something available via BitTorrent does not relieve someone from having to download it. It simply provides a better distribution mechanism for the data, huge as it is.
:P
Yes, exactly right. Of course people would still have to download it, where did the grandparent imply otherwise??? His point was that since the site got obliterated by slashdot and the file is no longer available, if NASA had chosen to use BitTorrent instead, their server would still be alive and the file would be easily downloadable. Oh well, hopefully next time
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If they do, they would obviously have to call it "Microsoft World."
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ed2k://|file|worldwind-1_2.zip|265444979|ED5CA6A72 890DE497BE2185C2007E31E|/
No torrent yet...
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This sounds like a great idea but I wish I could do it on Mars too. Explore the surface of a different world using high-resolution maps? Awesome way to adventure off this planet without requiring life support.
If one is interested in a global viewer with additional scientific value, the Global Land Cover Facility has the Earth Science Data Interface that allows one to browse Earth's surface from the perspective of many different satellites. It has imagery from the Landsats, Terra, Aqua and the Space Shuttle. For a true-color global satellite imagery set, check out the GeoCover NaturalVue at Earth Satellite Corproation.
did they change the tourist maps of dc?
This is the tourist map. Notice how SouthEast DC is not on there at all.
Yeah.
Check out this link,
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It's 1ft imagery of the capital building, but you can tell that it's been strategically blurred.
http://www.pixxures.com/library/viewer.jsp?lati
The 1m imagery isn't blurred at all.
Sorry this is Offtopic
I have found though that for me, the download speeds using BitTorrent do not surpass http downloading. An example would be the latest BF Vietnam patch. I tried to download it from Bittorrent but it was going to take about 12 hours to get a 100+ meg file while going to one of the mirrors I was able to download it in about 3 minutes. This was over cable. I had the ports open on my firewall and forwarding enabled as well and I am using BitTornado and throttling back the upload a small amount. I like BitTorrent but I never see the speeds I expect out of it. Only around 40-80k while HTTP I would get 200-400 normally. Any ideas?
Mind you in this situation it would definitely been beneficial for NASA to use BitTorrent as a medium. (ok so it isn't that offtopic)
Until NASA's servers manage to recover from the demand, here's a Torrent for your downloading enjoyment.
Looks the world is no longer viewable: "We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience."
Good thing you can't get that information anywhere else or there'd be real trouble. Interestingly enough, the 2002 version has been covered over somewhat. So perhaps this is just a post-9/11 scare.
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We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience.
Better lay off the downloads for a while guys.
A Dog isn't just for Xmas. With luck there will be some left over for Boxing day as well.
i dont have the resources to put up a bittorrent tracker but this is a great opportunity to showcase the power of bittorrent
Hmm...this is kind of goofy. I think it would be better to just limit the resolution in those areas that way you could not see details on the buildings, but you could still see the stuff around the building. It just does not make sense when I can walk up realtively close to it and even see it from my plane as I fly into Reagan. That and I am sure you can find all kinds of photos on the whitehouses own website.
Gorkman
They put up a mirror and are now online again. We must /. this new server.
A site I've enjoyed in the past is Terrafly that lets you view / visually fly over satellite maps of the United States using a Java applet.
Its also booringly realistic. Where is the moon? Oh, its faar away and really small, because that's the way it is in real life... Why are they galaxies so booring looking? Because this is not Star Trek, they look like that in real life.
I wish someone would make a (pop) simulation that looked like Haegemonia (a game).
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I set up my client to download this to my webserver which is sitting on a 10mbit connection.. so after I get a couple chunks, upload speeds should improve quite a bit.
Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
If we have access to something like this, just imagine what governments can see...
--Paul
Unixpunx
Just don't include the site on the map!
Its a bit like they got all children to stop saying fuck, by censoring it on TV!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/archives/worldwind
Nice page title too
nasa powned!
I ran into this several days ago, and went to check it out on my son's PC (which is fast enough for doom3... at the lowest video settings), but we couldn't get any of the high resolution imagary to show up. I guess it doesn't know how to negotiate an HTTP proxy.
Mirrors to the download file
Toronto has a GIS/Map feature on their web site, which includes Satellite maps (you need to zoom in first, then it will appear). The maps are from 2002, iirc.
I use Macs to up my productivity, so up yours Microsoft!
stuff'n'text
Check out Keyhole LT
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail." - Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
Given that Macs as well as *nix boxes are all over the place at NASA, you wonder why they released this for the inferior Windows platform. I mean, does NASA really need market share?
All of which can easily be done in celestia and with some brilliant astronomy class scripts available, to boot.
If the sole function of astronomy class is to learn to use a telescope to view the universe then Celestia is not be the best choice. But if you are learning about the structure of the universe and all that lies within, well then Celestia is vastly superior to any planetarium program.
FYI ... This is from their webpage:
:
2 .z ip1 _2.z ipz ip1 _2.z ip
We are online again the WorldWind application can be downloaded from the following mirrors:
BEST
http://128.102.102.126:9080/mirror/worldwind-1_
http://128.102.102.129:9080/mirror/worldwind-
http://kiosk.arc.nasa.gov:8090/worldwind-1_2.
http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/archivetmps/worldwind-
Is the whole world available in high resolution? I can't seem to get a sharp picture of my neighborhood at all. I see a little NASA icon in the top right sometimes and sometimes theres a red box it doesn't seem to want to update. Am I doing something wrong or can I just not see my house?
Somebody give me a link to a torrent...
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
http://qtss.arc.nasa.gov/worldwind-1_2.zip is working at about 175k for me...
Its not 260 MB, but 2000 GB+ mapdata. It downloads new map parts on the fly while browsing, and in the few hours i used it i have now already more than 500MB in my cache folder...
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Perhaps it is also interesting that there is a similar program but with less maps for Windows, Linux and MacOS on http://www.earth3d.org. It is available under the GPL.
It's also a little bit silly, as it makes the targets even more obvious as you "just need to aim for the white stuff" and you'll be sure to hit something of value. I've never been to DC, I don't know the high risk areas/buildings etc. They may as well have painted on a bulls-eye instead of using white blocks.
heck, once the code's publically available, i hope someone does the decent thing: rewriting all the directx (windows specific) stuff so that it uses opengl instead.
there's no reason at all why this app shouldn't be cross platform: i can't imagine they're using directx for anything much more than the 3d visualisation... and c# is (fairly) cross platform now... (hmmm.. i wonder if there are opengl bindings for c#/mono?)
afterall -- apart from the immense disk space requirements and the need for a fat internet connection -- pcs having a 1ghz cpu, 256mb ram, geforce2 (or better) spec are fairly commonplace nowadays.
it sounds like an awesome piece of software, and it would be great if it were available for linux/bsd/osx as well as windows.
Actually, if you go to terraserver.microsoft.com, you can see the Capitol and White House without any problem.
= 10&x=1608&y=21521&z=18&w=2
You can even see the Pentagon at http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s
hehehehehehehe
;)
Maybe someone should post a link to an AlQueada or Taliban website and see how fast SlashDot can take it down?
Do you see the FNORDS? I refuse to post anonymously, as I am fireproof!
Bah. This is nothing. I had a one-to-one map of the world on my wall in college.
They could make some money selling DVD's of their material.
Getting a touch of what the intelligence community gets to play with on a regular basis?
http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=worldwind
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California.
" For a..... web site??" ...using Flash.
Why oh why did the make this windows only ?
Whatever happened to Java ?
I like how our government neatly identifies all valuable and potentially damaging targets with large white blocks.
Seriously, what the is a set of satellite photos supposed to do WRT security? That's just idiotic.
May we never see th
I searched google for a torrent link...no cigar.
Who is this that even the wind and the waves obey Him? Surely this computer must submit also!
A post on the World Wind Forums. Go console the poor sysop.
Oh dear,
My beautiful server! Noooooo! I assembled it last winter and now it has been reduced to slag... doh.
learn.arc.nasa.gov - Main info web site barely up.
opensource.arc.nasa.gov - Main download site has been hit pretty bad.
onearth.jpl.nasa.gov - Main LandSat7 server has been pummeled. Tiles will be loading in very slowly.
USGS 1m & topo servers are still up, problem is they don't belong to us.
Ha! I finally got a download started!
Now, if everybody else will leave NASA alone for the next 4 hours and 11 minutes...I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
9% of worldwind-1_2.zip completed
And now I have 4 hours and 22 minutes remaining! You other people aren't cooperating...I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
has anyone tried running it under wine or cedega?
Its truely stunning. Now has anyone figured out how to plug these data sets into flightgear ?
There seem to be two torrents currently online: http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2658/worldwi nd.torrent
http://www.planettrevor.net/worldwind-1_2.zip.torr ent
I didn't RTFA, but this's my question: they're giving this for free? I couldn't be happier, I've been waiting for this for a while ... but man, a lot of businesses are going to lose customers to this tool.
Global warming is neither science, nor politics. It is a religion.
It will be interesting to see what shows up whe n we zoom in on all those "off-the-map" nuclear facilities where they get so touchy about policing their airspace. 'Don't know if US has many, but I know a few places in the UK which show up as just big green countryside on the maps.
someone wanna seed a torrent of this? the download speeds im getting are ridiculous, and the first successful download from the ftp was corrupt :/
Two words:
2nd Amendment
Or:
Smith & Wesson
I'm getting 50-70 KB/s at the moment, and accelerating (the direct link is 3-5 KB/s)
This isn't mine - an AC posted it... and got modded down. I can't believe it. This is the single most useful commenton this story - AND SOMEONE MODDED HIM DOWN!!!
Slashdot moderation really, really sucks. On other occasions, I've put some effort into comments, and they've also got modded down.
There's almost no point posting anything worthwhile, since no one will get to see it anyway.
It's a shame.
So, dear moderator, will you mod this comment up or down?
What about "clickdosed"?
Whoopee. I get to look at the Blue Earth. I've had that pointless image in my archives for more than a year. This sucks. None of the supposed features work. Anyone claiming to be able to see their house is lying. It's bad enough that it doesn't actually work, but what's worse is that this worthless piece of crap was created using tax dollars.
I can't get this. I assume it uses LandSat 7 and that the servers are too hammered to provide the data. Am I correct? Are there any torrents of LandSat data? NASA definately should have incorporated bit torrent.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Thru some weird coincidence, I just read that part of Vinge's book only an hour or so before seeing your sig...
DeepnessITS is bloody wonderful, isn't it? I never seem to get tired of rereading it...
Cheers
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
DITS is the most worn out book in my bookshelf... :)
I should buy a new one
The best part is how subtile the final solution of the "emergence-problem" is revealed in FOTD..
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Yeah, the binding is pretty much gone on mine, too. Sigh.
I haven't read FOTD yet, I just bought it; thought I'd reread DITS first and reacquaint myself with the universe. I've forgotten how good that book is and am taking my time. VERY much looking forward to FOTD.
Damnation that man can write!!
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
While I think peer-to-peer is a cool idea for removing the bottleneck of a single server, it is somewhat awkward to send a part of a big file to a guy in canada, and then receive a part back in exchange from hongkong.
This creates a lot of traffic on the internet backbones. It would be smart if filesharing software included some evaluation of the network proximity of hosts requesting a download. Maybe that is integrated somewhere, but I didn't hear about it yet.
I guess this is a case of The prisoners problem/paradox. It also would be cool if providers would run filesharing servers at their hubs, it would reduce their inbound traffic. Guess they'll find it too risky though for legal reasons, you'd need at least one person check whether a file is a (halfway) legal download offer.
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
And for requiring passports for internal flights.
Arg. thats too bad.
You should have read FOTD first. Yes, DITS takes place 40000 years or so before fire, but the genius of FOTD is only clear if the reader has the knowledge of Fire. In fact, fire creates the universe and Deepness throws those poor bastards in a nearly hopeless spot.
One hint, buy fire now, read it and reread the end of deepness after it. You will know what i mean.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Heh. Well, I did buy Fire; that's why I thought I'd reread Deepness first, to refamiliarize myself with that universe. 40,000 years? Really? Wow. Vinge sure thinks deep.
If I can tear myself away from Deepness, I may just follow your recommendation. It'd be hard tho, that book is so DAMNED good.
Do you know, did Vinge write any other books in that universe?
Cheers!!
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
"learn.arc.nasa.gov is down for emergency maintenance.
For World Wind information and software, please visit opensource.arc.nasa.gov."
Emergency Maintenance
For some reason I found this to be quite amusing.
Could it be that slashdot actually caused damage to their server? I always thought you guys were joking about that one...
learn.arc.nasa.gov is down for emergency maintenance. A hardware failure occurred on Thursday (9-30-2004) due to increased server load. We are building a new server and expect to be online by Tuesday (10-05-2004). Web pages and forums will be unavailable until then. -Randy Kim, NASA Learning Technologies
You broke NASA!
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