On Wednesday 07 February 2007 05:21, stephen white wrote: > NASA Worldwind looks interesting, but it is not cross-platform due > to .Net and DirectX. The data doesn't seem to be a problem though, so > I'm thinking about writing a GNUstep+OpenGL WMS version.
If you are willing to do the work, I would recommend just contacting NASA and ask them if you could join the project somehow. The reason why they went with DirectX was that the dev tools was better so that they could get up to speed faster, and now they don't have the time to learn OpenGL. I think they have had OpenGL support on the roadmap, but not gotten around to it. I'm quite sure they would welcome an OpenGL version of WorldWind, especially since non-DirectX platforms are widespread within the scientific community, and so a port could open it for addition of more scientific data. Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Programmer / Astrophysicist / Ski-orienteer / Orienteer / Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
