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Offline Sandwich

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on: November 08, 2004, 01:55:36 pm
WorldWind rocks. Think of our globe, in full hardware-accellerated 3D, mapped with all the satellite pictures NASA can get ahold of. WITH terrain elevation. AND country, city, and even landmark names. Add latitude and logitude, animated tracking of global events, and up to 1 meter pixel resolution via the USGS (United States Geological Survey) data, and you have an absolute winner.

Oh, it's completely free, too. :D


...My house is at latitude 31.73548 by longitude 35.19559. Drop on by anytime. :D

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Reply #1 on: November 08, 2004, 02:30:56 pm
DLoading now, looks interesting....

Minimum 3.1Ghz machine recommended :wtf:

Well, I can do it, but holy maloney! :D
 

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Reply #2 on: November 08, 2004, 02:36:31 pm
Ummm. That's  Intel Pentium 3 1 ghz or AMD Athlon or higher

Not

 Intel Pentium 3.1 ghz

This bit should have tipped you off.

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And think that NASA wouldn't know how to capitalise gigahertz correctly :D
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Reply #3 on: November 08, 2004, 02:38:29 pm
Meh, Bad Eyesight, one of the joys of turning 30 :p
  

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Reply #4 on: November 08, 2004, 02:41:01 pm
You mean I've got that to look forwards to next year?

As a side point 2GB disk space is fairly extreme for a program you have to download :D
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Reply #5 on: November 08, 2004, 02:58:20 pm
yeah, if it weren't for the 2 GB space requirement, I'de be downloading it right now.
 

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Reply #6 on: November 08, 2004, 03:02:54 pm
Thats tight. Thanks for the link.
 

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Reply #7 on: November 08, 2004, 03:12:11 pm
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yeah, if it weren't for the 2 GB space requirement, I'de be downloading it right now.


That's not a requirement. I have a bunch of cached max-res areas (NY, San Fran, Israel, Mt. St. Helens, Miami, etc), and it only takes up ~750mb.
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Reply #8 on: November 08, 2004, 04:34:46 pm
It's nice to see our tax dollars being put to good use :rolleyes:
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Reply #9 on: November 08, 2004, 04:41:24 pm
/me waits for d/l
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Reply #10 on: November 08, 2004, 04:42:37 pm
oo nice when i wanna take some pics and make my own overheads of targets in the world i would blow up with my N00b Cannon, i will be sure to post em!
 

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Reply #11 on: November 08, 2004, 05:51:40 pm
253mb?

Hell no.
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Reply #12 on: November 08, 2004, 05:53:43 pm
im at 81% right now, dsl just aint fast enough,mabe one day a t1 connection will be mine
 

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Reply #13 on: November 08, 2004, 06:12:48 pm
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I'm not even sure exactly what this is, but it looks interesting...pretty pictures :)
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Reply #14 on: November 08, 2004, 06:58:54 pm
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Originally posted by Kosh
It's nice to see our tax dollars being put to good use :rolleyes:


I'd rather see it used for this purpose than things like blowing people up.

What would be nice is taking this idea and applying it to a Celestia type program. It uses the current photos/etc. from probes and telescopes to base its info on.
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Reply #15 on: November 08, 2004, 07:18:55 pm
Downloaded it. Installer froze my computer.
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

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Reply #16 on: November 08, 2004, 08:03:26 pm
I have a cable modem and half a terabyte of data storage, hell yeah

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Reply #17 on: November 08, 2004, 08:29:06 pm
COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Reply #18 on: November 09, 2004, 12:01:39 am
:yes: This is very cool. So far I've only been able to view topo and aerial photos of places instead of the Global Landsat Mosaics. Sometimes I get a connection error and other times the program just refuses to render them. :(
 

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Reply #19 on: November 09, 2004, 12:39:02 am
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I'd rather see it used for this purpose than things like blowing people up



I do agree with that.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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