Re: NASA World Wind Landsat for the globe

on Thu, 12 May 2005 11:47:03 GMT, George <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sez:

` "Aidan Karley" <doIlookDAFTenoughTOpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
` wrote in message
` news:VA.000006d4.050f84d4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
` > In article <4282D3EB.3050708@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bruce Dickson wrote:
` >> Heres an interesting site
` >> http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
` >> World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on
` >> Earth. [SNIP]
` >> Its only a 180Mb download + 6Mb update!
` >>
` > As discussed elsewhere in this newsgroup, 180MB download, plus
` > DirectX9 (whatever MB download) plus the .NET framework (which makes some
` > of my work's laptops very wobbly when the software development people have
` > been pinching them) (whatever more MB). Windows only.
` > It does sound interesting. I wonder if the .MONO framework is
` > sufficient to run it. Next question after I get the mail-handler running
` > off-Windows.
` >
` > --
` > Aidan Karley, FGS
` > Aberdeen, Scotland,
` > Location: 57?10'11" N, 02?08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233

` A friend of mine told me about it a while back, so I downloaded it. It
` was interesting, but I didn't like the GUI, and it also didn't seem like
` it was a finished product.

>From the website, I get the impression earlier versions were buggy.
The current version is 1.31 . As I noted, it is resource intensive.
It likes a high end 3D vidcard. But I found the GUI fairly nice,
except that I couldn't find a way to remap the mouse buttons to
three buttons instead of left, right, and both.

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vincent@triumf[munge].ca Pete Vincent
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