3D virtual globe API for JavaScript, developed by NASA. Provides a geographic context, complete with terrain, for visualizing geographic or geo-located information in 3D and 2D. Web World Wind provides high-resolution terrain and imagery, retrieved from remote servers automatically as needed. Developers can provide custom terrain and imagery. Contains a rich set of features for displaying and interacting with geographic data and representing a wide range of geometric objects. More information at worldwind.arc.nasa.gov.
Develop a world-class World Wind application for the web. Setup instructions, developers guides, API documentation and more are available at worldwind.arc.nasa.gov. This GitHub repository contains the library source, examples and tutorials.
- worldwind.arc.nasa.gov has all things World Wind in one place
- Developer's Guide has a complete description of Web World Wind's functionality. You'll also find there links to many Web World Wind resources, including a user guide. The Web World Wind distribution provides many simple examples showing how to use all of Web World Wind's functionality.
- World Wind Forum provides help from the World Wind community
- GitHub Issues provides requirements and issue tracking
- WebStorm is used by the NASA World Wind development team
Here is a simple web app using Web World Wind. 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 World Wind. -->
<html>
<head lang="en">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>World Wind Example</title>
<!-- Include the Web World Wind 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 World Wind. -->
<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 World Wind.
function eventWindowLoaded() {
// Create a World Window for the canvas.
var wwd = new WorldWind.WorldWindow("canvasOne");
// Add some image layers to the World Window's globe.
wwd.addLayer(new WorldWind.BMNGOneImageLayer());
wwd.addLayer(new WorldWind.BingAerialWithLabelsLayer());
// Add a compass, a coordinates display and some view controls to the World Window.
wwd.addLayer(new WorldWind.CompassLayer());
wwd.addLayer(new WorldWind.CoordinatesDisplayLayer(wwd));
wwd.addLayer(new WorldWind.ViewControlsLayer(wwd));
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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