Features

WorldWind Java provides a rich set of features for displaying and interacting with geographic data and representing a wide range of geometric objects.

General Features

• Open-source, high-performance 3D Virtual globe API and SDK
• Adds 3D geographic visualization to any application
• Runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
• Free run-time and development license
• Unencumbered use on any number of devices
• Huge collection of high-resolution imagery and terrain from NASA servers
• Displays high-resolution imagery, terrain and geographic information from any open-standard public or private source
• Open-standard interfaces to GIS services and databases
• Large collection of geometric and geographic shapes
• Simple to extend and modify, designed to be extensible
• Uses Java and OpenGL

Graphics Capabilities

• Point, Path, Polygon, Curtain
• Volumes: Extruded Polygon, Ellipsoid, Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Pyramid, Box, Airspaces (see below)
• Terrain conforming shapes: Path, Polygons, Ellipse, Circle, Quadrilateral, Rectangle, Square, Text, Image, Icon
• Airspaces: Box, Cake, Capped Cylinder (full and partial), Curtain, Orbit, PolyArc, Polygon, Route, Sphere, Track
• Annotation: Text, Text Balloon, HTML5 web-browser Balloon, Image, Icons, all with geo-located and screen versions
• Placenames, Political boundaries
• Transparency
• Picking, Selection
• Navigation and Viewing: Orbit View, First Person, Stereo, application-defined
• Multiple WorldWind windows
• Interactive shape editors
• 2525C Tactical Symbols and Tactical Graphics

Data Formats

• Imagery: JPG, PNG, GeoTIFF, JPEG2000 and many others
• Government formats: NITF, MrSID, RPF (CADRG, CIB, etc.), DTED and many others
• GIS formats: Shapefile, KML, VPF, GML, GeoJSON, GeoRSS, GPX, NMEA and many others
• Coordinate Systems: Lat/Lon, UTM, MGRS.
• Datums: WGS84, NAD27 and many others

Analysis Capabilities

• Measurement,  geometric and terrain following
• Line-of-sight with high-resolution terrain and shapes
• Terrain intersection
• Shape interactions

Miscellaneous Capabilities

• Deploy as Java Application or Java Web Start Application
• GIS web service protocols: WMS, WFS
• Swing, AWT and JOGL integration
• Layer model with visibility and transparency control
• Highly configurable and customizable
• Automatic image and terrain retrieval from web services
• Animation: View, globe, object
• Local data cache
• Automatic region sorting
• Over 100 programming examples
• API documentation
• Community support forum