Nasa's World Wind

hamster

Wow! If you haven't tried this already... do so now. Warning it's a 180Mb download and needs a continuous net connection to get further imaginery... buit it caches everything and can be used offline and on other computers and reinstalls.

Here's what its about:
World Wind, a fully 3D interactive globe.. World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.

Get it here: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

Some interesting links:

http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/NASA_World_Wind_Download

http://www.worldwindcentral.com/hotspots/index.php?cat=top -- hotspots to look at.

and the forums:
http://forum.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

You can share your lat/long. location via edit menu and copy. The amount of no-place name places is amazing and my location is not so urban..
eg. your address would be like this:

worldwind://goto/world=Earth&lat=52.18145&lon=-7.27885&alt=21944&dir=-3.4

General Hint... zoom in slowly.. let it load... and zoom in again... let it load...

Try out LA at 284 metres using the Urban imagery setting!

Who's been playing with this for sometime? The add-ons are amazing!

The Free Man

its been posted before,but it sure is class.

ever notice that area 51 shows up on NLT Landsat 7, but doesn't show up on the USGS Digital Ortho?!

search for groom lake

aphex™

I prefered the one from keyhole.com. Much easier to use. Sure, google maps does almost the same thing now.

po0k

I must check this out when I get BB back...

hamster

Grr... one thing I notice is that the cache keep losing the place names (towns,cities) and insists on reloading it.

Fionn

yeah i've used this!! although some maps are about two/three years old, got friends in the US to have a look at their house .they could tell the date by their garden furniture, pretty amazing ok..

the_syco

Getting it from http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nasa-exp/World_Wind_1.3.1_Full.exe @ about 600 or 630 KB/sec. Nice. Took about 4 minutes to download.

Sneaky_Russian

what kind of detail can you get for ireland.....

Praetorian

Nice link. 7 minutes 10 seconds for me

Khannie

Praetorian wrote:

Nice link. 7 minutes 10 seconds for me

heanet flippin' rocks. It's just so fast. They have a sourceforge mirror among others. Actually....<new thread coming>

hamster

Fionn wrote:

yeah i've used this!! although some maps are about two/three years old, got friends in the US to have a look at their house .they could tell the date by their garden furniture, pretty amazing ok..

Yeah. I have cousins in Huntington beach LA... so I can see their house with their shoeshaped back garden swimming pool. It's unreal. I know it's 1999-2003 imaginery but thats no worry. I'm pretty happy with the landsat7 imaginery I get for my own location. After all, I can see labels for all my rural neighbours even ones that I hardly ever even heard of! One issue that I have though is trying to keep the labels displayed offline (even with a large cache setting). It's like the view needs to settle on an area for awhile. That or the program needs a cache kick from a new location.

Fibonacci

Not fully related but interesting none the less.

In google satellite maps, there are certain areas purposely blurred out:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1+Observatory+Circle,+washington+dc&spn=0.009012,0.015836&t=k&hl=en

For example is Dick Cheney's house. I wonder if Nasa App is the same?

torinoblue

Is Ireland in any of these systems in any great detail?

Saruman

No its not.. i checked.. actually only the US is in any REAL detail

Actually it is in a way but not as much as the US i mean. You cant get down to street level and have 3d views of the city as you can in the US

prospect

28 mins,

so much for 2MB each way at 8:1

the_syco

torinoblue wrote:

Is Ireland in any of these systems in any great detail?

Not really.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/the_syco/maynooth.jpg

Lord Nikon

getting nice download time...

unkel

torinoblue wrote:

Is Ireland in any of these systems in any great detail?

Dublin city centre is ok in keyhole

CyberGhost

Fionn wrote:

yeah i've used this!! although some maps are about two/three years old, got friends in the US to have a look at their house .they could tell the date by their garden furniture, pretty amazing ok..

really? wow, why doesn't mine do that?

when I zoom in, it gets blurry after some zooming...

CyberGhost

neuromancer, now that's speed!

Fenster

In somewhat related news, check out Celestia. Its akin to World Wind, except for the solar system and beyond. Its open source, and has clients for Windows, Mac and Linux.

hamster

Fenster wrote:

In somewhat related news, check out Celestia. Its akin to World Wind, except for the solar system and beyond. Its open source, and has clients for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Yep... seconded. It really is brill. There is lot of online docs and "tutorial" trips written up now. Frank Gregorio put a lot of work into this.

Fionn

CyberGhost wrote:

really? wow, why doesn't mine do that?

when I zoom in, it gets blurry after some zooming...

there may be several reasons for this, it depends on your bandwidth how fast the different zoom maps will update If bandwidth is low be prepared to wait some while for the pictures to load and sharpen etc., the US locations seem to be a lot better, if you use the USGS 1 M Ortho you can zoom as far as about 1500 meters. the Land Sat 7 visible is ok at around 7500 meters

Try using the USGS Urban Area Ortho and in the North Western US (didn't look anywhere else) you can zoom on some areas to about 250meters or so.
Here's a shot of the [URL=https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/[/URL] in Washington State.

CyberGhost

Fionn wrote:

there may be several reasons for this, it depends on your bandwidth how fast the different zoom maps will update If bandwidth is low be prepared to wait some while for the pictures to load and sharpen etc., the US locations seem to be a lot better, if you use the USGS 1 M Ortho you can zoom as far as about 1500 meters. the Land Sat 7 visible is ok at around 7500 meters

Try using the USGS Urban Area Ortho and in the North Western US (didn't look anywhere else) you can zoom on some areas to about 250meters or so.
Here's a shot of the [URL=https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/[/URL] in Washington State.

I tried the same place, but for me it just stops I waited and waited nothing...

Capt'n Midnight

what's with the clouds over the Aran Islands - is there a way to select different pics ?

Fionn

i don't know why the maps wont zoom more for you i haven't looked at the FAQ or any of the help files.....maybe there might be an update or something available.

I've just looked at Galway and the surrounding area and it does indeed seem to be covered by cloud at least most of it...i tried viewing the [URL=https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/[/URL] using the Community Landsat Visible WWC
it's pretty poor compared to the US detail.

RonanH

You think that's quick...

1877Kb/sec

Nice link...

CyberGhost

wow!


lucky bastrad!

steve-hosting36

Ahh, we love heanet