ESRI & Worldwind – Together Like Hippies and Haircuts
Chad pointed me to the Worldwind-dev Email list (I had unsubscribed because not much was happening) thread where it appears that ESRI is interested in collaborating with Worldwind. Patrick Hogan put it very well:
Whoever accomplished this would certainly be deserving of world class notoriety. “This” would be getting the ESRI tools successfully implemented. I believe this is possible through ESRI output to formats that World Wind could pick up. The tighter the integration the better. But it does have ESRI support.
Now there are no details whatsoever as to what this “integration” might be as no one has even though about how it should work. It is easy to put the cart in front of the horse here because generally ESRI culture subscribes to “not invented here”. It will be interesting to see what happens here, but it might take a long time if it happens at all.
Um, what happens to ArcGIS Explorer?
Lefty, I think this would be mutually exclusive of AGX as this wouldn’t be a ArcGIS Server client. I’m guessing the task framework would stay on AGX.
My crystal ball broke about August last year so I can’t see into the future anymore.
I don’t get much of this post (just reading this blog because I want to get into OS-GIS development when I have gotten my java-skills to a satisfactory level), but I really think this picture is hilarios, thank you for a good laugh
I guess the reason I find the picture so good is that I know quite a few people that it portraits very well.
So, does this mean NWW going the direction of GIS/visualization platform vs just a data visualization platform?
It would be great to incorporate more “gis” into that platform.
KoS
hot hippie chicks distracting me from dijjing….