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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."
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.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarb le/
This site has some absolutely stunning still shots of earth. Available as several hundred K JPGs, 1-2 meg JPGs, and up to 30 meg TIFFs.
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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.
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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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.
Keyhole has several features Earth Sphere in 3d 3d terrain data Street level details of many highly populated areas of the US. Overlays of Roads/Rails/Water ways Overlays of resturrants/lodging/gas stations It's not limited to just the US, it has data of many locations of the world. The downsides i see to keyhole are needing a fat pipe (like the nasa client), widly varying levels of detail, especially outside the US. My car would love this if it didn't need a broadband internet connection, and could store the data locally, at least for a select area(s). (Keyhole says they've got terabytes o data)
I know this is off topic but food for thought. If we can ./ a massive website like Nasa, I wonder what affect we will have on election day if we ./ georgewbush.com and johnkerry.com?
NO! NO! Please don't mod me, I'm too young to die a troll. *click* Oh the pain, the pain...
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You laugh, but Keyhole 2 Nv has a Mars dataset.
It says it includes the Blue Marble image. I have that on CD and it takes the full CD (2 TIFF files). What compression do they use with this one?
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.
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 would have thought n.a.s.a was bigger than anything slashdotter's could dish out. impressed!
We really need to get "slashdotted" entered into the Oxford dictionary. Seriously, if "bling-bling" can make its way in, at least something practical AND unobnoxious should get in easily.
Another great site for satellite imagery is the Naval Research Lab - Monterey website:
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http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.htm
Make sure you do full investigation of the site, there is so many features that I can't begin to list them. It is basically a clearing house for any imagery generated for forecasting. Tools to animate however you wish, etc. Seriously, spend some time to check it out....
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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.
Well, I posted a torrent to suprnova but it hasn't shown up yet. I posted as anonymous so the torrent has to be moderated. The tracker is http://centraldownload.mine.nu/ and the torrent can be downloaded from there too. NASA Worldwind. Sorry about the bandwidth, maybe if someone else has it they can seed as well.
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.
Seed this torrent.
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...
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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.
that server has been slashdoted before and handled the load just fine. but serving web pages is a little different than serving 250MB files. In the first 30 mins one first mirrors went online the worldwind app was downloaded 1400 times. we've now got 4 servers cranking it out..... ouch.
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The problem is that 90% of the people with broadband have asynchronous connections, so there isn't enough bandwidth to give everyone what they want. You're probably getting an average of 2-4 KBps from everyone you're downloading from, which doesn't add up to a whole lot for most swarms. P2p will take over once everyone has a synchronous connection. I can't wait until Verizon starts selling FTTP here in Tampa: 15 MBps synchronous for $55 a month :)