Archive for May 12th, 2005
NASA WorldWind
Thursday, May 12th, 2005
A whole new tilt on topo maps. NASA WorldWind is a “world viewing” application. It basically lets you look at the earth in lots of different ways from lots of different sources and at any angle in a 3D model. You may have heard of Keyhole (recently acquired by Google), which is also cool and does basically the same thing, but with a few different features (like driving directions and flyovers). Keyhole does have higher resolution images in some areas, and can look up places by address, but WorldWind has many different image overlays and lots more information about the geography, weather, land, and just about everything else. It’s also free and open source, whereas keyhole is expensive and closed.
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