The Geospatial Web or Geoweb is a relatively new term that implies the merging of geographical (location-based) information with the abstract information that currently dominates the Internet. World Wind Geo is an experimental geo browser built on top of:
World Wind Java SDK - Allows developers to embed World Wind technology in their own applications.
Eclipse - Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes.
Goal of World Wind Geo: The Eclipse RCP Geobrowser is to close the gap between GIS & SIS (Scientific Information Systems) by incorporating low/med/hi resolution GIS datasets from multiple sources: NASA, MS Virtual Earth, and others with the java NetCDF library for plotting/subsetting capabilities of scientific data.
World Wind Geo has the following fetaures:World Wind Java SDK - Allows developers to embed World Wind technology in their own applications.
Eclipse - Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes.
Goal of World Wind Geo: The Eclipse RCP Geobrowser is to close the gap between GIS & SIS (Scientific Information Systems) by incorporating low/med/hi resolution GIS datasets from multiple sources: NASA, MS Virtual Earth, and others with the java NetCDF library for plotting/subsetting capabilities of scientific data.
- Interactive 3D navigation.
- Full support for WMS 1.1.x and 1.3.x using wizards.
- Over 500 real time weather data sets from NOAA and the Navy Research Labs.
- Limited support for KML: Ground overlays, screen overlays, and placemarks only.
- Support for animated ground overlays to visualize events over time.
- Scientific Data Plot/Subset capabilities with NetCDF.
- Open source: built on top of the World Wind Java SDK and Eclipse frameworks.
- Highly extensible: It uses the eclipse plugin framework to extend the user interface.
- Multi platform: built on proven standards: Java and Eclipse.