WorldWind
WorldWind
Posted Jun 16, 2006 4:00 UTC (Fri) by k-squire (guest, #5595)Parent article: Google Earth for Linux
WW2D is a port of NASA WorldWind, an open source (but currently Windows-only) program similar to Google Earth--3D view and all, and with access to a lot of data sets not (yet) available from Google Earth--hurricane damage estimates, spread of avian flu, semi-real-time planet-wide cloud cover, the Lewis and Clark trail, eclipse path tracking, etc., etc., etc.
According to this link, the next version of the original program should have a Linux port.
See this link for a comparison between Google Earth and WorldWind. The biggest difference, of course, is that Google has much more high-resolution imagery (as has been mentioned many times above). The interface for Google Earth is also a little bit more intuitive, I've found. I am looking forward to the Linux port of WorldWind, though.
Kevin