George Lantz

I downloaded and ran the latest released version of the WWJ SDK available for download at the World Wind Java site - 20070817. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the 2D location map and the distance meter added to the window by default. Cool less that I have to do. I was thinking of doing a tutorial on how to add those things.

Also, I should add that if you want to find even later releases and release announcements head over to the forum http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43. This will have the latest releases for you to try out. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I downloaded the NetBeans 6.0 M10 release. I was mainly interested in how it would preform as a Ruby on Rails Editor. Well, 2 words, I frickin' love it! Ok, that was four words but, but in my opinion it is that good. Read the rest of this entry »

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 am just getting started on an application that uses the World Wind Java SDK. As I learn more about it I will post tips and lessons, more for myself as a reminder of how I did something, but maybe someone else will find use of them. This lesson will be a very simple Hello World. I will explain how to get the WWJ SDK going in NetBeans in this article. Read the rest of this entry »