Reguardless of what Import Cartography thinks (though I did not see that till Datum Shift posted about it, no 3DConnexion did NOT send me a SpaceNavigator just so I could give them a great writeup. They had sent me one so that I could help their developers fine tune a plug-in for World Wind so that the SpaceNavigator would work with in World Wind.

Yes, they could have done it without my assistance. But they wanted a user / developer from the World Wind community to assist them. So they contacted the NASA World Wind project manager and he in turn asked on the World Wind Developers list and I said I would help out and he let the people at 3DConnexion know I would assist them.

I never promised them anything on my blog, they never asked for anything as well. But you have to know by now that if it is World Wind related.. I am gonna talk about it And this makes up for what I promised I wouldn’t talk about.

But really.. I am not a full “GIS Blogger/User” .. Manifold, ESRI, etc.. does not get talked about here (much)… so Manifold (or anyone else) sending me their program/product to blog about is not gonna happen, if it does, I would be more than amazed. And any other software packages I could talk about in relation to World Wind are all free to begin with, so no gain there for anyone, other than how to use it for a task.

Hopefully, this nips any ideas people had in the bud.