Friday, March 04, 2005

World Wind 1.3 (beta)

NASA World Wind

" Significant user interface improvements, including tile download indicator
- New NLT Landsat7 dataset
- New NLT elevation dataset
- New community Landsat7 mirror dataset from WorldWindCentral.com
- Camera: added planet gravity, camera banking, field-of-view, and axis lock options. Planet gravity is on by default
- Place finder: fast search with index generator, columns, favorites, history, GPX coordinate import/export
- Scripting capability added, based on 1.0 specification (Tom Gaskins, NASA: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/dev/World%20...-2005-02-12.doc)
- Now interprets new worldwind://wmsimage= URI format
- Provincial borders added for Canada, municipal borders added for Norway and Sweden
- Installer: optimized, correctly checks for .NET 1.1, doesn't run multiple instances, has several translations. Rapid Fire MODIS base dataset included in install
- SVS now compatible with new server data format
- New "Flags of the World" and "County Municipalities in Norway" add-ons"


The very cool World Wind from NASA has rev'ed to 1.3... If you're interested in Managed DirectX & C#, the source code is a must download.

(via Double Exposure - World Wind 1.3 (DirectX))

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