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World Wind

WorldWind finally gets road data… sort of

March 26, 2008

One of the problems with NASA WorldWind is that it uses public domain data, and most road data isn’t public domain. Therefore, there really isn’t any road data in the application, which makes it far less usable. However, OpenStreetMap data is public domain, and now you get get that data into WorldWind. It takes a [...]

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Problems with World Wind servers

June 12, 2007

Daniel Baker of Bull’s Rambles reports a growing problem with NASA’s World Wind servers. As he says, the problem “seems to be getting worse”, but NASA is aware of the issue and they’re working hard to resolve it. In the meantime, you’re advised to set up a large cache and simply be patient.

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