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World Wind - an Open Source sibling for Google Earth?

Blue Marble image from World Wind web site LandSat 7 image from World Wind web site
SRTM + LandSat 7 image from World Wind web site Modis image from World Wind web site
Globe and Visual Guides image from World Wind web site Other data image from World Wind web site
Images from the World Wind web site

NASA's World Wind is an Open Source educational tool that "allows users to explore many aspects of the Earth and Moon".  Summary of World Wind's main features. World Wind is a 60 MB programme, and currently only available for Windows XP/2000, although a Linux release is reportedly due in 2007.  As World Wind's own thorough, even-handed, and "Google Earth friendly" comparison between Google Earth and World Wind makes clear, World Wind and Google Earth are in effect complementary siblings, with different purposes.

Posted on 28/01/2007 in Resources |

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