(Ammendment : Google Earth eventually enabled a rather basic limited WMS support) Something like TNTmap can be used to generate a kml launcher and a reflector like Its own unless you buy a rather hefty upgrade to it and I havent Note Google Earth doesnt have any form of GetCapabilities ability of TNTmap can also save layers as standard Add-Ons (configuration files) With a plugin called WMSInterface although Terms of doing getCapabilities ) that could be upgraded considerably World wind actually comes with extremely basic wms support.(basic in Rather hard to decipher, although other limits may be more significant a simple one is neither of them have implemented a GetFeature Info,Įven via a plug-in at least not yet. Google Earth and World Wind both have limits in this arena. no extra installation steps for the person wanting to view Google Earths KML allows you to easily publish overlays and provide web World Wind has the underpinings which will allow loading of someĬommon GIS formats a rudimentary method (without interface) exists for Linkable icons it is possible to take Google Earth even farther ahead Offerings in WW and with KML and easily created user defined hot Google Earths labels and vector data overlays are well beyond the The ground cover reflects the same time last year. The management of Blue Marble next generation data in World The artist in me wants consistant color / contrast and other things the Better can be relative for instance sometimes Imagery so these are often but not always better than the publicallyĪvailable layers in WW. Smoother in loading/rendering its layers because cacheing is though kml basedĪnd the ease of their creation make this not entirely true. Rather than letting the GE corporation decide. Google Earths interface is approachable and many parts are quite a Science toy features of WW, she obtained a CS degree while in her early I have an incredibly savvy aunt who would be far more interested in the The ones your grandfather and aunt will appreciate are free built in and haveīetter useability quotients than their closest equivalents in WW and its plug ins. In comparison Google Earth comes out of the box (so to speak) very nicelyĮquipped but some of its features are paying user only features, however most of This GIZMO called World Wind and they shouldn't be under rated aĬomparison which doesn't consider them is not giving WW its due measure. Plug-ins are probably the coolest elements Shine to the oceans, moons to the sky, dynamically updated cloud Measurement tools (more primitive than in Google Earth or TNTmap)Īdds a compass rose and for the artistically inclined another adds For example one plug-in enables GPS plotting and another adds Toy (in the best sense of the word) whose plug-in architecture means in the long run it could have moreįeatures GE as it is easy to add plug-ins and customized to fit its userĮxactly. World Wind is a scientist and student, programmer Location based services (for instance route planning) in 3D, whose primary At their basic the two applications are different in philosophy and reallyĭo seem to have divergent target audiences.
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