A wiki page is being populated with related information about Tim van den Hamer, his work and his passing are on the WorldWind Central Wiki.

I have just been informed today that WorldWind community member known as ShockFire (Tim to the rest of us) has passed away while battling with lymphe node cancer.

He had been involved with WorldWind since it’s first public release in 2004 and was a strong force in what brought the WorldWind community together in the beginning.

A website is being put together and as I gather more information I will pass it along.  If anyone has any messages they want passed along to the family, send them to me via the contact form and I will send them along.

This is a great shock and a major loss for the Worldwind community for anyone that knew Tim.

Someone (not me) forgot to pay a bill.

A few days ago, the Polish Geoportal did some updates.  M_K from the WorldWind Forums has put together a WorldWind XML file to view the imagery in WorldWind.  Just copy the file into the Config\Earth folder.

The Climate Mapper was developed for SERVIR-Viz (WorldWind spinoff) to give project designers access to historical weather data as well as projections of climate change. The data are available for an area of about ½ degree ½ degree, or roughly 50km x 50km near the equator. When you click on the map, the tool will pull data for the grid cell surrounding the point where you clicked and display it as a line graph. The data can be exported to a spreadsheet application.

The Climate Mapper grew out of USAID’s effort to develop its Climate Change Adaptation Guidance Manual. The Climate Mapper now serves the entire globe, excluding the extreme polar regions. The data are available for an area of ½ degree ½ degree, or roughly 50km x 50km in the tropics. The Climate Mapper presents outputs of three of the models used in the IPCC’s 4th Assessment Report: the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate System Model (NCAR CCSM); the European Centre/Hamburg Model (ECHAM); and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Coupled Model (GFDL-CM21).

Quick features are:

- View maps and data for observed or modelled future projections of various climate themes (temperature, precipitation, runoff, soil moisture, and climate moisture index)

- Graph component is interactive (uses zedgraph), and data can be exported into CSV format

- Map data is available for the entire globe.

Download here

Have not really posted much about add-ons lately.. ok, long while.  But this one is nice that Panglos has put together.

You can view the following information:

• Atlantic Storm Tracks
• Gulf of Mexico Storm Tracks
• Atlantic Storm Frequency
• Gulf of Mexico Storm Frequency

He has also created video’s of this years storms flight paths.  Some very good work on all the information he has pulled together.