The Earth Is Square » Virtual Earth

Virtual Earth Udate… Still No Better Coverage of Pennsylvania

Chad — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:50:27 +0000

Ok VE guys… I keep asking this almost every single update… can we please get some better stuff of Pennsylvania? (Birds eye views of the middle of nowhere??) ;~) But anyway, I have been browsing the latest VE update and the new and updated imagery is looking quite nice.

And of course, you can view the new ortho imagery in WorldWind and WWJava with the additional plug-in or code.

Post from: The Earth Is Square: Virtual Earth Udate… Still No Better Coverage of Pennsylvania

Improved Virtual Earth Code for WWJava

Chad — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:41:45 +0000

WorldWind forum member Omega has been busy working on the Virtual Earth code for WWJava and has made a nice number of improvements. You can download the code for your own WWJava project. He wants to do a Google Earth version… but I recomended he had better not.. since Google has a “Take but not Share” policy and I don’t want to have Google Lawyers calling Patrick about it.

Post from: The Earth Is Square: Improved Virtual Earth Code for WWJava

New Version of Virtual Earth Plug-In for WW.Net

Chad — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:33:54 +0000

Taking things into his own hands, so to speak, guil from the WorldWind forums has been working on an updated version of the Virtual Earth plug-in and has posted his results for testing. You can download the new plug-in from here.

Fixes/Updates:

Corrected some bugs concerning column and row wrap-around (tiles from south pole appearing in north pole, tiles with negative row or column indexes)
Removed the need for proj 4, by encoding directly the Mercator projection and simplified some code managing the projection. It should improve slightly the performances
Also added a transparent border/road/name layer
Main modifications concern the optimisation of the mesh creation algorithm. I worked in radian instead of degrees to reduce angle conversions. I also changed the way it reprojects. The overhead due to Mercator reprojection is now linear in Meshpointcount instead of quadratic previously. This could significantly improve performances when using large Meshpointcount
Fixed bug that causes crashes when downloading large numbers of tiles

Post from: The Earth Is Square: New Version of Virtual Earth Plug-In for WW.Net

CNN Switched to Virtual Earth?

Chad — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:14:47 +0000

Was watching CNN while at the gym today and they were making heavy use of Virtual Earth to show regions that were being affected by the severe storms in the US of late. They used the Bird’s eye view a lot where it was available.

Now CNN use to use Google Earth a lot, and to be honest I never liked how it looked. But their use of Virtual Earth looked a lot nice and to put it plainly, more professional looking.

I am not sure if they are using both Google Earth and Virtual Earth, or if they have just switched fully to Virtual Earth.

Post from: The Earth Is Square: CNN Switched to Virtual Earth?

Virtual Earth for WWJava

Chad — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:34:40 +0000

Don’t ask me how.. but back in December I missed something very interesting.. MS Virtual Earth was posted to work with WWJava (and I had been thinking this should be done now :} ). You can get the Java code here and use it in your project.

Post from: The Earth Is Square: Virtual Earth for WWJava