Geo Tech Review: Wednesday, January 18, 2012

World Wind

What is World Wind?

• FalconView in Java?
• Java, seems to run on everything

Thanks to SOPA and PAPI Wikipedia is down.  Thank you US congress.

http://goworldwind.org/

• this site get you started

http://goworldwind.org/features/

• provides a rich set of features for displaying and interacting with geographic data
• represents a wide range of geometric objects
• Open-source
• high-performance 3D virtual globe API and SDK
• run on Windows, Mac and Linux 

http://goworldwind.org/android/

http://goworldwind.org/android/android-development-environment/

• looks like there might be Android support.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/

• World Wind SDK

http://worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Main_page

• Wiki for World Wind

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/lifeonearth/lifeonearth-worldwind.html

• World Wind for Windows