Visit the world via satellite-Zoom in!

by **dgraves** » Thu May 05, 2005 6:43 pm

My brother from Houston just told me of this site. He's a computer program designer-

NASA's "World Wind" http://www.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

You can zoom in any place on Earth!

Stupid question: How do you enable the emotion icons?!

by **yorkshire lass** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:35 pm

Hi Dorian

If you go into profile, you can then enable the smiley things....................I think :oops:

Yorkshire Lass

by **dgraves** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:55 pm

Hi Yorkshire Lass,

I've tried the profile bit, but here goes! :lol:

SEE? Can't get it to work, but thanks a lot anyway.

Hey, I didn't know they appeared AFTER you submitted :oops:

by **yorkshire lass** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:59 pm

Aha, success :lol:

Yorkshire Lass :wink:

by **Gus** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:28 pm

is this an application you have to download or can you just visit website and play

by **dgraves** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:37 pm

Gus, you do have to download the program. Its well worth it- and FREE. Makes me feel like I'm in one of those spy/ surveillance movies

!

by **Gus** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:41 pm

how long does it take to download????

by **dgraves** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:45 pm

It took me 44 min. The program gives specifics about what is required (eg) Pentium 3 or better, etc. Look it over & see. I've only scratched the surface- just been playing with it today. You can pin point buildings!

by **Malky** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:56 pm

It's a 180Mb download. :shock:

Broadband users only I reckon :cry:

That would take me about 7 hours with ISDN. Dial-up users forget it.

Perhaps some kind soul with broadband and a burner would stick it on a CD for us mere mortals. :wink:

Malky

by **dgraves** » Fri May 06, 2005 12:09 am

I accessed through wireless DSL. My brother's coming to visit the end of May. I'll ask him :roll:

He's the computer nut.

by **gman** » Fri May 06, 2005 11:27 pm

guys you also need to install the .net framework to run the application.

You can get this from www.microsoft.com

I have 1.5MB ADSL connection so I'll let you know if it's worth a look but it's certainly got me interested...