in partnership with the European Space Agency
3D virtual globe API for JavaScript, developed by NASA in partnership with ESA. Provides a geographic context, complete with terrain, for visualizing geographic or geo-located information in 3D and 2D. Web WorldWind provides high-resolution terrain and imagery, retrieved from remote servers automatically as needed. Developers can provide custom terrain and imagery. Provides a collection of shapes for displaying and interacting with geographic data and representing a range of geometric objects.
- worldwind.arc.nasa.gov has setup instructions, developers guides, API documentation and more
- Forum provides help from the WorldWind community
- WebStorm is used by the NASA WorldWind development team
The Web WorldWind Developer's Guide has a complete description of Web WorldWind's functionality. You'll also find there links to many Web WorldWind resources, including a user guide. The latest Web WorldWind release provides many simple examples showing how to use all of Web WorldWind's functionality.
Here is a simple web app using Web WorldWind. It is the contents of SimplestExample.html in the example collection. It displays an interactive virtual globe in an HTML canvas.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- This is a very simple example of using Web WorldWind. -->
<html>
<head lang="en">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>WorldWind Example</title>
<!-- Include the Web WorldWind library. -->
<script src="http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/worldwind.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 50px; left: 50px;">
<!-- Create a canvas for Web WorldWind. -->
<canvas id="canvasOne" width="1024" height="768">
Your browser does not support HTML5 Canvas.
</canvas>
</div>
<script>
// Register an event listener to be called when the page is loaded.
window.addEventListener("load", eventWindowLoaded, false);
// Define the event listener to initialize Web WorldWind.
function eventWindowLoaded() {
// Create a WorldWindow for the canvas.
var wwd = new WorldWind.WorldWindow("canvasOne");
// Add some image layers to the WorldWindow's globe.
wwd.addLayer(new WorldWind.BMNGOneImageLayer());
wwd.addLayer(new WorldWind.BingAerialWithLabelsLayer());
// Add a compass, a coordinates display and some view controls to the WorldWindow.
wwd.addLayer(new WorldWind.CompassLayer());
wwd.addLayer(new WorldWind.CoordinatesDisplayLayer(wwd));
wwd.addLayer(new WorldWind.ViewControlsLayer(wwd));
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
NASA WORLD WIND
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