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Virtual Earth for NASA World Wind
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on Friday April 07, @07:38AM
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adamhill writes "The amazing Casey Chestnut of /cfWorldWind fame has done it again - a plugin for NASA World Wind that displays Virtual Earth in NWW.
It also hooks into the Virtual Earth Geolocator Service to help you find addresses and businesses. All the normal views are available - Roads, Aerial and Hybrid."
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The Earth Is Square blog reports about this new plugin for WorldWind to ingest the OSM data. From their summary: "Yes, you can get some road data, for the US you have Topo maps. Or you can use the Virtual Earth plug-in. Or you can load shapefiles or your own data. But now we have a WorldWind XML that works in WorldWind.net to load the OpenStreetMap tiles in via a WMS server, all thanks to someone wanting to load the tiles in WorldWind Java.
Open Street Map data is a perfect fit for WorldWind. Why? Because their goal is to make a global road map of the globe that is in the Public Domain and free for all to use without restrictions."
For more information and relative links (including the plugin xml), please visit The Earth Is Square blog.
Open Street Map data is a perfect fit for WorldWind. Why? Because their goal is to make a global road map of the globe that is in the Public Domain and free for all to use without restrictions."
For more information and relative links (including the plugin xml), please visit The Earth Is Square blog.
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