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.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Google Earth Browser plugin

I was thinking about blogging not only about The Balloon Project but also about GIS things. And here is my first post.

The next links talks about the new release of the Google Earth browser plugin:

http://earthissquare.com/2008/05/28/google-earth-in-a-web-page/
http://bullsworld2007.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/another-google-idea-borrowed-from-world-wind/
http://maps.co.mecklenburg.nc.us/ft/?p=238

and here is a bit summary of it:

advantage

it is another product of the google universe

disadvantage

only for windows (at the moment and like the initial release of GE)
memory and processor eater

and finally, I would like to note this is a great new for google product fans, but Google doesn't invent nothing, WWJ and MS VE arrives first, they can be the bastards brothers but arrives first ;)