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News About NASA World Wind JAVA and SDK

posted by Satri on Friday May 11, @09:12AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the long-awaited-preview dept.
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This was a busy week for the NASA World Wind developers. The Confused Life blog informs us that the World Wind JAVA SDK has been released, this is not the NASA World Wind Java version but it's a significant step closer. The Earth is Square blog provides links regarding NWW Java and an F-16 demo and the accompanying video along with an interview with the NWW Team. From the latter: "Q) How do you see World Wind in comparison to Google Earth and ArcGIS Explorer? NASA World Wind is focused on science, but more than that, World Wind provides the opportunity for others to expand this open source visualization platform in ways only others can imagine."

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