Cool Program: World Wind 1.3

[Smith]

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.

Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara.

System Requirements

* Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
* Intel Pentium 3, 1 GHz, or AMD Athlon or higher
* 256 MB of RAM
* 3D Graphics Card
o nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra
o ATI Radeon 7500
o Intel Extreme Graphics 2
* DSL / Cable connection or faster
* 2 GB of disk space

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov

I actually just found this, so im downloading it now. Its about 174mb and im getting fast speeds so i figure ill install it and see what it does.

EDIT: Wow this is crazy. You can see from 10,000 meters anywhere in the world, and up to 1 meter in in the states. You can see cars and people walking!! this is so much fun. If you have the fast connection get it.

[david622]

sounds cool
**downloading**

[imasoldier]

Damn im gonna try it I wander if I can see my house... Will it let you move it anywhere?



*edit you cannot see people walkng etc its just pics : /

[Filliz]

*edit you cannot see people walkng etc its just pics : /

What did you expect?
Your own personal satelite with videocamera that you can move anywhere anytime, to zoom in on people in real time?


Would be cool though

[orcutt989]

The installer does not work for me. Everytime I try to "run" it, it says the installer is corrupt and you need to download it again. So I do, and it says the same thing!

[Smith]

Not the installer, its you

[RPerry]

Program works for me, however, it onlyseems to magnify about 20 miles to the north of me ( Disney Area ) does it take a long time to fill in, or am I to assume they don't have the pictures of my area ?

[Smith]

Go to help and connect to irc, they will help you. Also sometimes it takes a while to load.

Ask the guys on irc, there nice enuff

[fkdup74]

i tried this months ago, didnt zoom in enough for me
nah actually it was ok, but an earlier version, still going through major development,
so i canned it
theres one called "keyhole" that gets much closer,
but it isnt free like the NASA app

[david622]

i didn't find that world wind would zoom in enough either.

oh well. maybe i can find a freebie of keyhole. i almost got it once but saw it needed payment.