SRI just opensourced TerraVision:
Enjoy. I know I will :)
- Ian
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 23:14, Vernon Singleton wrote:
> For purely acedemic reasons, may I ask ...
>
> What is the highest resolution, mercator projected,
> cloudless image of the earth that is
> freely available for download, and reasonably zoomable
> using open source software given 4Gig of RAM and hw RAID 0?
>
> and
>
> What would be the best open source software
> to use when zooming in on it?
>
> There is one image at
> http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?11612
> called
> http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev116/ev11612_land_ocean_ice_8192.tif
> but it is only 31Meg ( 8192w x 4096h).
> It is the best one I've found ... (using gimp to zoom).
>
> There are two others
> (21600w x 21600h), 245.94 MB
> color (true), Western Hemisphere
> and
> (21600w x 21600h), 410.41 MB
> color (true), Eastern Hemisphere
> at
> http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?11656
> but when you try to download them you get
>
> Large File Access
> The file you have selected is approximately *245.94 MB* .
> At this time we are providing access to these files
> on a restricted basis.
> If you would like access to this file (#11663),
> please contact the webmaster, vemail@eodomo.gsfc.nasa.gov
>
> And they have not responded to my e-mail request yet.
> And certainly I need to get a better viewer than Gimp before I try to
> view it.
>
> Vernon Singleton
>
> "It's not true just because you believe it is. It was true first, and
> then you finally believed." -- myself ... reflecting on the assumptions
> of various modern world views.
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