Ok, here it goes... WorldWind FINALLY has roads!
Something I have been wanting in WorldWind since almost day One. Roads. Seems so obvious to have.. yet was not so simple to get. Why? Because WorldWind uses Public Domain data.. and most of the road data is not Public Domain .. or they don't want to share.
Yes, you can get some road data, for the US you have Topo maps. Or you can use the Virtual Earth plug-in. Or you can load shapefiles or your own data. But now we have a WorldWind XML that works in WorldWind.net to load the Open Street Map tiles in via a WMS server, all thanks to someone wanting to load the tiles in WorldWind Java.
Open Street Map data is a perfect fit for WorldWind. Why? Because their goal is to make a global road map of the globe that is in the Public Domain and free for all to use without restrictions.
Philadelphia
Washington, D.C.
Paris, France
[...] and now you get get that data into WorldWind. It takes a few steps to get it loaded, but Earth Is Square has the details. Hopefully they can incorporate this data into a future release of the product so [...]