Digital Earth Blog » World Wind http://www.digitalearthblog.com Keeping up with the various digital globe products from companies such as Google, Microsoft and more Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:21:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 WorldWind finally gets road data… sort of http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200803/worldwind-finally-gets-road-data-sort-of/ http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200803/worldwind-finally-gets-road-data-sort-of/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:12:26 +0000 mickey http://www.digitalearthblog.com/2008/03/26/worldwind-finally-gets-road-data-sort-of/ 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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]]> Philadelphia in WorldWind using OpenStreetMapOne 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 few steps to get it loaded, but Earth Is Square has the details.  Hopefully they can incorporate this data into a future release of the product so that more people can take advantage of it.

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]]> http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200803/worldwind-finally-gets-road-data-sort-of/feed/ 2 Problems with World Wind servers http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200706/problems-with-world-wind-servers/ http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200706/problems-with-world-wind-servers/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:29:12 +0000 mickey http://www.digitalearthblog.com/2007/06/12/problems-with-world-wind-servers/ 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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]]> 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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