Re: **Unbelievable Earth software from NASA

From: Frosted Flake (Frosted_Flake_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:47:18 -0700

Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:10:56 GMT, "Stavros"
> <skirby1@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>
>>This is a 'gotta have' for maping freaks. I got this as part of a a cover
>>DVD on Australian Personal Computer mag this month.
>>
>>It's freeware, but does make you install the .NET framework and a 9B of
>>DirectX
>>
>>Broadband connection to Internet preferred
>>
>>Simply astounding! Unfortunately a HUGE download, the zip I got was 260 Mb
>>!!
>>
>>I googled the source for you to peruse..
>>
>>http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/worldwind/
>
>
> Stavros, all,
>
> tried it, uninstalled it again. Not ready for prime time.
> Whenever you want some interesting, i.e. high resolution, map,
> the server chokes.
>
> The guy is badly in need of a Bittorrent clone in his program.
> The idea of letting the whole world downloading high resolution
> maps from one server is naive.
>
> The program has other defects and a user interface that needs
> some more thought.
>
> But then it's free, so I can't complain, only remark.
>
> Hans-Georg
>

Same comments here. Plus

Download is very slow even on cable. It downloads at about 10% of what
the connection is capable of. I tried at various times during the day
and night without any noticeable improvement.

When you zoom in to look at orthophotoquads and/or topos things seem to
get much worse switching layers. I had it hang overnight so I finally
killed it.

Human Factors - color for crosshair and location and server loading
message should contrast with whatever the background color is.
- needs more and better help information
- needs a way to 'remember' the last view and location so that you can
get back to it faster.
- needs a way to clear its cache

I'm uninstalling it (over 800 meg under the 'NASA' folder right now). 

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The Frosted Flake
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