Anslem, While neither work in a browser (at least out-of-the-box), Nasa's World Wind and OSSIM's ossimPlanet are two good open source spinny globe projects. Ben Disco has a good comparison chart of Earth Viewers on his web site (http://www.vterrain.org/Packages/earth_viewers.html)
Maybe there's room for a Java WorldWind "Lite" that runs in a browser. There was some work done along this line last year (http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/showthread.php?t=9598) Brent Fraser Anselm Hook wrote: > > Not to always talk about my own stuff but I'll mention one last time > that I'm still really keen on getting or joining any good open source > spinny globe project to try and deliver a reasonable 3d globe in the > browser: > > http://hook.org/globe_may72008/bin/spinnyglobe.html > http://spinnyglobe.googlecode.com > > Right my vers ion is illegally proxying tiles from Yahoo... and doing so > very badly due to limits on my time - I have yet to finish it by myself > and I haven't found anybody who can follow even this simple algebra and > who is interested :-(. It is using code that I found in the Stamen > ModestMaps... But the hope is to later fetch legal properly projected > tiles from say onearth or elsewhere; or to reproject them.... > > There are many many of these globe projects out ( see > del.icio.us/tag/spinny+globe <http://del.icio.us/tag/spinny+globe> ) but > none appear to be open source other than the most trivial texture-mapped > spheres. It feels like if peopl e would actually collaborate a bit we > might end up with a good visualization platform that we could all then > do more interesting things on top of... and it feels like free > marketing and press if a company were to make this foundation free. > > I saw several of these for the IPhone as well at Where 2.0 - in > particular Denis @ Poly9 has a very nice one. > > - anselm > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
