__/ [ Linønut ] on Thursday 09 March 2006 12:41 \__
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
>
>> http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/
>
> The irony is that I remember 20 years ago being able to get NASA
> software (through a company called Cosmic) essentially for free.
>
> We (meaning I) ported their surface plotting software to Microsoft
> FORTRAN, then to Lattice C, for a project in our lab.
Microsoft have Terraserver and Virtual Earth now. Fortunately, there are
projects that exploit NASA's data to make an Open Source Google Earth clone.
http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/08/30/1240231.shtml?tid=132&tid=27
So, we needn't wait for Google to port Google Earth to Linux (currently
available for Tiger (OS 10.3+) and Win32). They will probably get around to
it eventually, having started similar work on Picasa, using some cunning
WINE-like mechanism.
Best wishes,
Roy
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