The Earth Is Square

The World Wind betas of 1.4 and 1.3.6 will be released in a few days (last minute tweaking of the code is going on now).. I know I said today, but deadlines are meant to be passed

Here is a start of what is new and inproved in World Wind:

Fixes/Improvements:

• Camera shakes/jitters/jumps fixed
• New WMS Control
• Time Control Added
• KML Importer Improvements
• New XML Configurations
• Placemarks served via WFS
• Boundaries served by WMS
• Enhanced Compass plugin
• Satellite Tracker plugin

New Items:

• 3D Lighting
• Atmospheric Scattering
• Effects and Multi-Texturing
• Scalebar Legend
• Widgets code
• Waving Flags + CIA World FactBook plugin
• HTML Browser
• Line Feature
• Polygon Feature
• Model Feature
• Animated 3D Clouds plugin

For detailed information of some of the new additions and improvements, check the related wiki page.

* Fixed an "oops" a bullet went away and combined two items.

Ogle Earth has an interesting post up about a Dutch patent for "Internet search result display method, uses altitude ranking system to link relevance of objects to viewpoint above virtual globe or world map".

The article explains that the company has developed EarthConnector, described as a technology to allows companies and organizations to plot their databases on Google Earth, Maps and comparable apps. Earthbooker.net is based on it. Erwin is then quoted as saying, "In the Netherlands we have a patent on our technology and there are now patent applications in 120 countries."

Check Ogle Earth for more details in his post.

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Well.. I think I am making some good headway finally... other than a really messed up database I have not had many bad issues.

Now to just finish up the rest of the site work and setup.

Ok, new domain is setup.� New webhost is setup.. just need to get wordpress up and running and transfer� the data� over and make sure it all works..� I am sure NOTHING will go wrong

If all goes as planned.. the site will be up and functional in a day or so.