NASA's World Wind Software

posted on 2004-10-01 at 23:47:25 by Joel Ross

If you haven't seen NASA's World Wind Software and you have a highspeed connection (it's a 250 MB download), you should check it out. It's written in .NET, and you can basically see any place in the world you want to see. As you zoom in on areas, it hits NASA's servers to get clearer images. Pretty cool.

Some of the images are older, and I'm not sure how old. I did see a lot of cars outside of an old meijers in the area that made it appear that the store was still open. It's been closed for at least 3 years, and was recently torn down and replaced by a Home Depot. I was able to see my house, though. Granted, my house was built in 1899, so I'm pretty sure every satelite image of the area would include my house.

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