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NASA Releases World Viewer

Posted by michael on from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.

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."

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  1. US-only Re:Commercial site (free usage) by perler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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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  2. Hmmmm? by GoMMiX · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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!)

  3. Warning: Uses and installs .NET !!! by frovingslosh · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    World Wind requires DirectX 9b and the .NET Runtime environment to be installed. These have been included in the World Wind installer

    Bastarts! Why in the world include .NET ???

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