New satelite imagery software

[Hawkeye251]

Hey all, I know some of you use Google Earth or various mapping programs to trace rail lines while planning your layouts. I recently started using a program being developed by NASA called World Wind (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/) which may actually be better for our purposes. Perhaps its best feature is a number of different high-res aerial photo databases that are not available in Google Earth. I was able to trace the Seattle & North Coast roadbed through the remote Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, using some black and white imagery from the early nineties that isn't available in Google Earth (at least not in the free version).

Plus if you get bored, it offers the ability to cruise Mars the Moon, or Jupitor!

It wont run on Mac or Linux though, and you're going to need a fairly decent computer.

[jbaakko]

Very nice, well the black & white was. The problem is it only uses government images, USGS, Nasa... Where as Google Earth, or Windows Live (online) have access to commercial images, and have some nice high res shots. The black & white was awsome though, I'm following Cajon...

[Steve B]

Hawkeye WOW, i like it,,, there's some great functions in there, you just gotta find em. there is even a drop down to plot all earthquakes, brilliant