extremely good program from NASA
 

massive download but well worth it

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

Thats amazing :D

I havent worked out how everything works - I just keep zooming into the sensitive military areas to see if they let you look at the photos

just started downloading the UK another 152mb!!

Don't exactly get what it's all about?

is it possible to get street level detail or not?

so far just boundries + town names!

Si

I've downloaded it and it's extremely cool :cool: All I need now is someone to tell me how to use it :D

260 Meg - it had better be good. Seeing as I have lost all my connections to work and have bugger all else to do at the moment, I'll start downloading :)

I'm guessing this is going to be far too much for my poor old 56k dialup modem...

Quite likely Tony :(

I have 2meg broadband and still have an hour to go for the remaining 75%!

Transfer rate is pretty slow at the moment... wonder how many folks (not just scoobynetters) are downloading this right now :eek:

I've found my village using coordinates but that's about all so far :D Tony, it took me ages to download using broadband :eek:

Hmm, a case of "Don't try this at home" for me then :D

Forgot to add - Sal, have you tried it on Sweden yet?

Yep, had a look at the area covered by the WRC :D I'm currently downloading the UK...

So what is it ??

I wont even try until i get home :rolleyes::p as by the sounds of it, it'll bring down the complete network :D

im attempting to bring down the network now ;)

That is quite staggering :) It is basically a map of the entire world - some of the images are amazing. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing with it yet, but it is very impressive! It will allow you to navigate to basically any point on the surface of the earth. Have a read of the website for more details.

50%......

cue Scoobynet bringing down NASA's internet connection! ;)

I'm currently downloading the UK again as something went wrong right at the end of the download the first time I did it... :rolleyes:

Operator error no doubt :D

33mb left :D

so the UK is another 250mb download? probably best i leave that till tomorrow ;)

Very good program took me ages to d/l on broadband but worth it :)

I've downloaded the UK but I'm not sure what to do with it now :confused: I've just had a look at the UK using the programme but it appears to be downloading the data from the NASA server - the NASA logo is in the corner - shouldn't it be loading straight from the cache now?

I'm outta my depth here :D

i think we all are :D they need a more indepth manual (first time ive said that :eek: ) howd you make the images 3d? no point havin flat mountains :Suspiciou

Earth at night its good :)

A guy on the World Wind Forum has produced this User Guide

There's also a pdf version of the same thing Here

I haven't had chance to look at it yet tho. It might just be a simple getting started guide.

ScoobyChick, I manually copied all the UK files after unzipping them into the relevant folders :rolleyes: Wasn't sure how to do it otherwise.

So no idea whether it's made any difference or not :(

It keeps crashing my puter :(

It says you need a 3gig pentium and win2k or xp.

how close can you get,ie can you see your village or house?

To the house :)