[Stoat]

World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data to experience Earth terrain (or any planet with the data) in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there. Virtually visit anyplace in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps or along the African Sahara.

Are you interested in spectacular satellite imaging and related graphics and technologies? Do you have a modern, fast computer and a fast internet connection? Then you might want to test drive this puppy.

Recommended system specifications:

Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional Intel Pentium 3 1 ghz or AMD Athlon or higher 256 MB of RAM 3D Graphics Card nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra ATI Radeon 7500 Intel Extreme Graphics 2 DSL / Cable connection or faster 2 GB of disk space

[Dead Corpse]

Cool. I'll check it out...

[Khurkris]

Thanks...this looks like a good tool. This puppy is a BIG DL. Bkmr'd for the wee hours.(and I'm on a very hi-speed line...lol)

[Pete'sWife]

I downloaded this the other day. It is absolutely FANTASTIC!!!

Type your hometown in the search box and wait a minute. Not only will it zero in on the location, it adds the names of all the surrounding towns.

One question: When I zoom in the image is very fuzzy. As I'm pretty impatient, does this ever get sharper?

I don't think the download took too long. I'm using DSL, and I think I had it in less than 45 minutes.

I highly recommend this one. I'm not very "technical," but World Wind provides some beautiful pictures.

Thanks!

[JoJo Gunn]

259.2 megs....

[boris]

Very nice. Very slow. My employer's firewall blocked most of the better stuff.

It sure likes to spend time downloading databases...and seems not to want to show me what it has.

Hmm. I'm on a Cable modem and I grew impatient with it.

What is the magic trick or incantation to get it to work in general instead of one or two features?

[SunkenCiv]

Some simulations, movies (stills on other pages):

http://www.cosmographica.com/gallery/movies.html