In short, yes. It's a government funded program and as such cannot be charged for (other than through federal taxes). The program itself is open-source and will always be free. Access to NASA provided data will also remain free. However, there might be private companies that want to provide their data through World Wind (perhaps magazines or encyclopedias) and perhaps might charge a fee for access to their data.

Yes, it is. You don't pay for it. You can run it, you can view the code, you can modify the code and you can redistribute your modified version. Some do not agree and say that according to Free Software Foundation the NOSA license (which is one of the OSI approved licences) is not free. The fact is that FSF uses its own definition of this word, but it can't claim that this definition is the one and only and all others are wrong.

In short, yes. It's a government funded program and as such cannot be charged for (other than through federal taxes). The program itself is open-source and will always be free. Access to NASA provided data will also remain free. However, there might be private companies that want to provide their data through World Wind (perhaps magazines or encyclopedias) and perhaps might charge a fee for access to their data.

World Wind is open source Windows software that lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there. See World Wind for more information. Read System Requirements, Software Requirements, and Minimum configuration (just scroll down a page). World Wind is large and demanding of computer resources.

Both NASA World Wind and Google Earth are sophisticated programs with amazing feature sets, and they both have features that the other would benefit from. Despite how similar both programs seem they are not entirely comparable due to significantly different focuses, development history and philosophies. Many people use both programs depending on what they wish to accomplish.

The Landsat Global Mosaic (except for i-3 visible layer), Blue Marble, and the USGS raster maps and images are all Public Domain. See Copyright Questions When Using Images From World Wind for more info.

In particular, this license is more of the LGPL variety, not requiring that modifications are redistributed. Here is a relevant section from the license. I. A Recipient may create a Larger Work by combining Subject Software with separate software not governed by the terms of this agreement and distribute the Larger Work as a single product. In such case, the Recipient must make sure Subject Software, or portions thereof, included in the Larger Work is subject to this Agreement.

Most of the datasets that World Wind has access to are in the 'Public Domain' and can be used for commercial purposes (but generally not the actual data servers), however, some datasets, including 3rd-party add-ons/plugins may have their own terms-of-use which could prohibit commercial use of their products and services.

NASA World Wind Java is an SDK aimed at developers who want to create their own virtual globe applications. NASA World Wind Java provides next-generation 3D virtual globe technology for embedding in applications written in the Java programming language. It supplies a suite of Java technology-based components that developers include within their own applications, providing virtual globe functionality to any application that can benefit from it.

The goal is 100s of World Winds, not one. That's why NASA created WWJ as a Java component. NASA has no plans to create a World Wind Java client similar to World Wind .Net. They plan only to continue to develop and expand the SDK. With that said, the World Wind Central community is planning to create a reference application that will be similar to the World Wind .NET client. See JavaForge World Wind Central Java App

NASA World Wind Java is an SDK. It is meant for developers and not end users. The bundled application and webstart on the NASA Java page are just simple demos to show how to get started with the SDK.

The NASA World Wind Java SDK is platform independent. The demo has succesfully been run under Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Fedora Core 6. Without installing the AMD64 version of JOGL you will likely see errors like Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no gluegen-rt in java.library.path or Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: ~/wwj/libgluegen-rt.so: ~/wwj/libgluegen-rt.

The README file in the release distribution gives the command-lines to use, or use the Ant targets given in build.xml. You can run the basic demo by double-clicking on worldwind.jar, but the demo will run only a minute or two because it requires more Java heap space than the JVM provides by default. The Ant targets and the command lines given in the README set the appropriate JVM arguments.

Yes. The max heap space needs to be set to 512 Mb or better, and the no-direct-draw argument needs to be set to tell Java 2D not to use DirectDraw (Windows only). The README and build.xml show how to set these.

World Wind uses Java logging exclusively to communicate error and warning messages. To have the messages printed to standard output, set the JVM argument -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties and make sure the .level line in the logging.properties file (included in the release) says "FINE", "FINER" or "FINEST". The WWJ release as of May 11, 2007 is an early-access release. The code and the API will continue to evolve, although the architecture will remain the same.

This just isn't practical and won't be possible anytime soon. To do this requires a network of satellites dedicated to covering the earth. Just to provide as much detail as the base layers World Wind loads first, the camera resolution on each one has to total about 100 megapixels. Perhaps the military has such a network, but it is certainly off-limits to anyone else. The images have to be received on the ground and processed.

No. Separate short rides are taking place in cities and towns around the world on the same days. Of course, if anyone is up for cycling naked around the world...

World Wind is open source Windows software that lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there. See World Wind for more information. Read System Requirements, Software Requirements, and Minimum configuration (just scroll down a page). World Wind is large and demanding of computer resources.

In particular, this license is more of the LGPL variety, not requiring that modifications are redistributed. Here is a relevant section from the license. I. A Recipient may create a Larger Work by combining Subject Software with separate software not governed by the terms of this agreement and distribute the Larger Work as a single product. In such case, the Recipient must make sure Subject Software, or portions thereof, included in the Larger Work is subject to this Agreement.

Research done through contact with graduates of our program shows that 7 out of 10 graduates remain drug-free after a 5-year period. This is a very high percentage; most conventional programs only boast a 15 to 20 percent recovery rate, if that. Our program gets results.

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Both NASA World Wind and Google Earth are sophisticated programs with amazing feature sets, and they both have features that the other would benefit from. Despite how similar both programs seem they are not entirely comparable due to significantly different focuses, development history and philosophies. Many people use both programs depending on what they wish to accomplish.

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