The Balloon Project

The Balloon project blog is a place to talk about my personal virtual globe project so called "Balloon Project". Initially it was born using my own developed 3D API allowing to load, render and animate GIS information, georeference images, import lat/lon shapefiles and load layers from any WMS server. The future project will be based (I hope it) in WWJ. WWJ is still in an early alpha stage, because it, I try to contribute with some features I learn or implement working in my own 3D API.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

The Balloon Project blog

Today I decide to start a blog for my actual project: The Balloon project !!!
Mainly, three factors motivated me to start it:

The existence of other spectacular virtual globes, like World Wind and Google Earth, (and others less spectacular like WW2D).
Improve my knowledges about OpenGL, in concrete JOGL, basically to answer the questions: how works a virtual globe? and, how can I implement one?
The knowledge of the existence of the NetBeans platform and the desire to learn to use it :)

I have no much time to work in the project, but step by step I think can develop a good enought application ;)