Virtual Globe

[Allan Doyle]

On 2/14/06, Jørn Vegard Røsnes <jorn at spacetec.no> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just want to send you a hint about this 3D tool.
> http://globe.sintef.no/
>
> It's almost like Google Earth, but with WMS support.

Very nice! Based on the email thread, I think you are fetching
predefined areas from existing WMS servers and are caching them
locally, then feeding them to the viewers. That makes sense and fits
directly into the discussion topic on the WMS Tiling mailing list:

http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tiling

What we're doing is looking at existing tiling schemes with a goal of
perhaps picking a single tiling scheme that can be used by all the
virtual globes accessing WMS. That way the tile caches could be
distributed and we would be able to use things like torrents, P2P,
squid, etc.

  Allan