NASA's World Wind

[BWF89]

NASA has it's own planet viewer that is competeing with the Google Earth I hear everyone on these forums complain about that isn't avalible on Linux. World Wind isn't compatible with Linux either but since it's released under the NASA Open Source Licence v1.3 it could be in theory ported.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html

[23meg]

i think it's been done already:

http://ww2d.berlios.de/

[heimo]

This should work on Ubuntu too (see screenshots):

cross-platform, free and open-source version of NASA World Wind software

http://ww2d.berlios.de/

EDIT: 23meg - you're quick

[ashmew2]

Hey , the site has moved : http://ww2d.org/home.php

[PartisanEntity]

cool, thanks for the link.

[PartisanEntity]

Has anyone managed to get it to work? I installed it, but when I try to launch it I get a message about the path to the 'Cache' file, when I click 'OK' to continue it will launch for about 1 split second and then disappear. (Im on Dapper btw).

[MetalMusicAddict]

Has anyone managed to get it to work? I installed it, but when I try to launch it I get a message about the path to the 'Cache' file, when I click 'OK' to continue it will launch for about 1 split second and then disappear. (Im on Dapper btw).

Did you install it as root? If so, thats why you get the error.

Run the app as root and you be good. Or reinstall as a user.

Im on Feisty and installed Sun Java 5 to make this work. 6 doesnt work.

The installer for WW2D is nice as well.

[clinux]

Hey , the site has moved : http://ww2d.org/home.php

I know it's an old thread but where can i find ww2d now?

[jamesstansell]

I know it's an old thread but where can i find ww2d now?

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

[Vivaldi Gloria]

WW is the only program I miss in ubuntu. Google Earth doesn't cut it. I have 120GB WW cache and I cannot use it.

WW2D is old (from v1.3 days). New WW Java is under development and I hope someone makes a decent linux version.