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BWF89
September 28th, 2005, 03:44 AM
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
September 28th, 2005, 03:47 AM
i think it's been done already:

http://ww2d.berlios.de/
heimo
September 28th, 2005, 03:48 AM
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 :D
ashmew2
February 15th, 2007, 04:18 PM
Hey , the site has moved : http://ww2d.org/home.php
PartisanEntity
February 15th, 2007, 04:22 PM
cool, thanks for the link.
PartisanEntity
February 15th, 2007, 04:36 PM
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
February 15th, 2007, 05:15 PM
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
July 16th, 2008, 11:03 AM
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
July 16th, 2008, 04:59 PM
I know it's an old thread but where can i find ww2d now?

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Vivaldi Gloria
July 16th, 2008, 09:42 PM
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.
clinux
July 16th, 2008, 11:16 PM
apparently, ww2d isn't nearly as good as WW, because it lacks on features and its 2d anyway. Good to hear that new java WW is being developed.

ps:too bad people fall for that .net ****. whatever useless technology MS comes up with, people just blindly follow it.