On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:34:36PM +0000, Alexandre Leroux wrote: > > Hi list, > > We have an in-house virtual globe used for weather and meteorology > purposes. This app is mostly coded in C and uses GDAL/OGR. > > With all the high resolution imagery out there (GE, VE, Y!, etc.), we're > wondering if there would be a way to access high resolution datasets for > our own in-house virtual globe. > > I know about the Virtual Earth plugin for NASA World Wind. > http://www.brains-n-brawn.com/default.aspx?vDir=veworldwind > It's in Java (and my developer hates Java :-) but I guess it would be > possible to salvage the protocol to use the same VE data within our own > virtual globe.
WorldWind has special permission from Microsoft to do this. If you are planning to use this as a service (and it's important to you not to violate the ToS of the provider), then you will need to communicate with the data provider to obtain permission to use their imagery in this way. All of the currently available commercial services suffer this limitation. Free services like the NASA landsat imagery that was being offered via NASA do not suffer this limitation, but do not match the current level of accuracy of these services. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
