George Lantz

In this article we will look at how polylines can be added to World Wind Java SDK. Polylines are used to represent routes or tracks on your map. A polyline is made up of a list of point coordinates and a line is drawn between each point to create the full polyline. There are actually two different types of Polylines in WWJ. We will take a look at both of them. Note: this tutorial is just to get you pointed in the right direction. There are probably much more efficient ways of handling this. This is just a starting place. Read the rest of this entry »

I have been researching map data to display maps inside the desktop application frontend for nomadexplorers.com. I hit pay dirt. I found several NASA data sources. It's got me thinking about other possibilities for future additions to nomadexplorers.com and other fun projects. Here are some notes one a few of the data sources I have found. Read the rest of this entry »