World Wind

hmorris - September 28, 2008 - 1:00pm

World wind is basically an open source alternative to Google Earth. So for the very few of you who don't know what that is it's a program that allows you to see anywhere in the world in 3-D. This app is open - source and free.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html that is the link to the download
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html that is the home page
I'm not sure if this is possible to be made portable and I hope somebody checks it out!

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WorldWind uses cashed files

LOGAN-Portable

(Homepage) - September 28, 2008 - 1:08pm

WorldWind uses cashed files that run into the GBs. This makes WorldWind to big (and slow) for most or maybe any Flash Drives available atm. Also when you limit the amount of cashe it would literally replace files constantly with new graphic files.

At this moment I just

ZamolxisArt - October 4, 2009 - 2:25pm

At this moment I just finished installing Portable Apps on a 16 Gb corsair Voiager mini
And this one is modest in size unlike it's bigger brothers.

And World wind comes ready for java as well...

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/index.html

maybe there is still hope

it's more suitable for local

ceciliaFX (Homepage) - October 4, 2009 - 9:37pm

it's more suitable for local HD's or large removable drives, but even tho I would love for this program to be portable isn't that impossible because it uses NET??

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