Nasa World Wind ~ Unbelieveable, go download this NOW

You'll love it.

Nasa have released a 3d model of the entire planet 8O

The textures are made up from satelite photos and air born photos, the terrain heigh is calculated from land bases.

Put it all together and you can zoom in on anywhere in the world. The american maps go to 1m resolution, so you can tell the colour of the cars in san francisco 8O And see shadows of people walking.

Unbelieveable. Bit of a pain to download, you gotta instal bit torent, then download the torent for world wind. Then install miscrosoft .net then install world wind. BUT IT TOTALLY ROCKS.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ ~ official nasa site

http://www.worldwindcentral.com/hotspots ~ geek community central. I think without the geek community this could never hae been made.

I'll post up some of my images later, plus my home coordinates.

ENJOY

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APR
24
2005
Rev

dude that's sweet...

the maps are WAY old and outdated though... I live in Zachary, and the area where I live is still grass and stuff.. and this place is over 10 yrs old..

but its copol nonetheless.. I'm going to checkout my hometown later today and try and guage about how old the maps actually are (though I could prolly find that info somewhere on nasa's site, but I don't feel like searching..

Cheers.

also.. I only needed to put .net runtime and directx runtime (which most everyone should have.. I think it was out around the time of sp2) and then ww itself..

APR
25
2005
Mr_Chutney

Thats an incredible resource-

I was on the phone to my girlfriend over in the US and with a bit of too-ing and fro-ing we managed to find her house.. at one point she was giving me left at the next junction directions- incredible!

Just a bit sad it doesn't have rest of the world street level photos-

still very, very cool Sphism/gigglesmiley

APR
26
2005
Rev

it doesnt have a lot of the us in street level photos either.. but still cool nonetheless

MAY
3
2005
Orbit

Thought I'd posted something, but didn't show up... hmm...

I haven't downloaded this yet, but I've been blown away by Google Maps...

http://maps.google.com

Things I like about it:
* UK-style streets (outlines instead of just lines)
* satellite imagery so that you can see what the turns will look like!
* use of arrow keys to navigate. take a scroll around your city!

Beta

This is the first public beta version of the site... it's been about 5 years in the making... enjoy, and get involved... contact me and say hello

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