Virtual Globe

[Jørn Vegard Røsnes]

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 15:38, Daniel wrote:
> Very interesting, but what is the license ???
>

The web page http://globe.sintef.no/ says:

To justify its existence and finance further development the Virtual Globe has 
to generate paying projects (SINTEF is a non-profit, self owning, independent 
research institute, and is dependent on income for paying our wages and 
office facilities). We are interested in participating in research projects 
involving distributed geographical visualization and processing and in 
product development. 

We have ideas for using the Virtual Globe for tourist information systems, 
urban and infrastructure planning, air and surface navigation and route 
planning systems, educational systems, general distribution of geographical 
data, and many other kinds of information and entertainment systems. 
If any of this sounds interesting please contact: Rune.Aasgaard_at_sintef.no 

At this stage we do no share source code for other purposes than what is 
described here.

cheers
Jørn


> dF
>
> Allan Doyle a écrit :
> >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