The Earth Is Square

Datum Shift was the first to break this news..  After posting about someone from ESRI leaving, and then retracting the post after he found out it was wrong.. his site has now "vanished".  So, is it an ESRI take down?  Someone from Manifold has finally snapped?  The "Men in Black"?  Or, just a "WTF?" moment?

Well, it has been a year since the "100 Year Floods" in Pennsylvania. So on my trip in over the 4th of July I went back up to the Twin Covered Bridges (Closer, but in BW) to see how it looked a year later.

The site has been cleaned up nicely, the new park has been restored, the remaining span has been fixed up and the supports put back in place. I also leaned that they will be rebuilding to span that was lost and that they even recovered some of the wood from the lost span to use in the rebuilding (I suggested they should look into getting the Amish to rebuild the span).

You can see some other pictures I have taken while there, here.

After 15 weeks my passport has finally shown up today... now I just need a place to travel TO...

If you tinker with the World Wind SVN version, you will see that Nigel has been busy in there adding GeoRSS support to World Wind.  As he says though, this should still be considered Alpha right now. But by the time we have the 1.4.1 release of World Wind it will be ready to go.

World-wide Web (WWW)

WWW was developed as a hypertext system at the Center for Nuclear Energy Research (CERN) in Geneva. It allows links with and between WWW documents and, like Gopher, provides access to other Internet resources and navigation tools. Although much admired by many in the Internet community for the elegance of its design, WWW has not proliferated as has Gopher, in part because WWW services are more complex to create and maintain, and in part because security restrictions at CERN restricted Internet access.

From Navigating the Internet, 1993.

tve on the World Wind forums has a thread started for people to post screen shots of what they are doing with World Wind Java.

He has started off with some pretty amazing screen captures like these:

3D view, with 3D models added showing trees and an irrigation system

Probably the coolest looking show I have seen, this used an elevation pseudo-color glsl shader

Another hybrid shot with the USGS Topo layer overlaid minus the Topo background color.