N.A.S.A. World Wind - EarthGoogle's competitor

[ARMAN]

Landscape of the globe looks better than google one imo, but I couldnt zoom and have a good picture of citys yet, maybe I should turn it on somewere Quality is close to googles, I havent explored it yet much thou.



http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html ~185MB

here are the features it has
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/features.html

happy traveling


EDIT: just found how to turn on zoom :shock: Sadly it only(as I have seen) American city's, no Europe :roll:
You have to press "USGS Urban Area" button on the top button menu and zoom in

Radome street in Washington


and here is same place by google


L.A. dodger stadium is is a quality close up or what?


and again same by google


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So they use same images, only Nasa have them a bit more sharp but it dont have anything from Europe when Google have partually at least.

[Toronto]

nice of you to compare the too

[RC45]

MSN Virtual Earth is also about to go live hehehe

http://www.virtualearth.com/

[Toronto]

looks like they are trying to be the top dogs with those nice screen shots

[RC45]

Yeah - they (Micro$haft) have been a huge partner behind the scenes at Terraserva - http://www.terraserver.com/ - so they probably have their grubby hands on the best quality data

[ARMAN]

After posting it I was wondering if it was worth it cause its 90% same as google, same maps, just few more goodies like animations of wilf fires, floods etc. Oh well...

Cant wait when they do some "map" with full good-or-high-res coverage of all city's.. that must be ALOT of work for them and ALOT of space in theyr servers to store it all

[saadie]

is it a stand alone program or do u ahve to be online to use it like google earth thingy ......
google earth crashed 3 times on my pc ..... and now the installer isnt woring :fist: ......

[twboy1999]

thanx

what sup all these virtual globe


but is all good

[saadie]

well .. ppl can see where they live and point out look i found this .. loook i found that .....
well to be honest ... its pritty kewl fer increasing yer knowledge ( donno how .. but im sure it helps ) .... and u can find the shortest routes to yer destination and all ... and u can kinda find lotsa new things where u live ... like i found 6 tennis courts i ddint know of ... and i've been living here fer 3 years
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