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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. Geostationary Satellite Server by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  2. C# And DirectX... by malakai · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  3. BitTorrent to the rescue! by Jaeger · · Score: 5, Informative

    Until NASA's servers manage to recover from the demand, here's a Torrent for your downloading enjoyment.

  4. Re:259M download! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://centraldownload.mine.nu/download.php?id=110 6&hit=1&file=worldwind.torrent Here is the torrent. It is slow to start but is getting faster with more people.

  5. Re:Hosting a torrent by wscott · · Score: 5, Informative
    How about this one:

    http://centraldownload.mine.nu/download.php?id=110 6&hit=1&file=worldwind.torrent

    (I didn't make the torrent, but I did post the link. ;-)