worldwindjs
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WorldWindJS is an interactive 3D globe library featuring imagery, maps, terrain and 2D projections from the Web WorldWind virtual globe SDK from NASA and ESA plus several community contributions.
Mitigation efforts are underway to ensure that WorldWindJS based projects are insulated from the effects of the NASA WorldWind project suspension.
WorldWindJS is a fork of the popular Web WorldWind library from NASA (with contributions from ESA). This fork provides a release channel for builds based on the latest fixes and features from WebWorldWind's develop branch plus several "cherry-picked" enhancements from the WorldWind community.
This fork exists to support the development of several personal projects, including:
WorldWindJS is made available in the spirit of the NASA motto: For the benefit of all. Show your support for this project by giving it a star!
NavigatorState has been deprecated. Its properties have migrated to DrawContext.HeatMap from the WorldWind NASAWorldWind/feature/heatmap branch.ShapeEditor from the WorldWind NASAWorldWind/enhancement/shape_editor_refactoring branch.Web WorldWind is a 3D planetary globe engine built in JavaScript for the web, developed by NASA. The European Space Agency has provided valuable contributions to this platform since 2015. Web WorldWind provides a geographic context complete with terrain, and a collection for shapes for displaying and interacting with geographic or geo-located information in 3D and 2D in any modern web browser. High-resolution terrain and imagery is retrieved from remote servers automatically as needed, while enabling developers to include their own custom terrain, imagery, 3D shapes, and position markings.
The project's website, worldwind.arc.nasa.gov has setup instructions, developer guides, API documentation and more.
The Web WorldWind Developer's Guide has a complete description of Web WorldWind's functionality. In there, you will find many Web WorldWind resources, including a user guide and documentation for every module file. For complete beginners on WorldWind, the Get Started tutorial is the place to go.
The latest Web WorldWind release provides many simple examples showing how to use most of Web WorldWind's functionality, as well as more involved small applications for reference on how to use Web WorldWind in domain-focused GIS development.
Install NodeJS. The build is known to work with Node.js 12.18.0 LTS.
npm install downloads WorldWind's dependencies and builds everything
npm run build builds everything
npm run doc generates the WorldWind API documentation
npm run test runs WorldWind's unit tests
npm run test:watch automatically runs WorldWind's unit tests when source code changes
npm version <newversioo> changes the version number in package.json
npm publish publishes the build to npm
Copyright 2003-2006, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2022 United States Government, as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All rights reserved.
The NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind platform is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind also contains the following 3rd party Open Source software:
A complete listing of 3rd Party software notices and licenses included in WebWorldWind can be found in the Web WorldWind 3rd-party notices and licenses PDF file found in its code directory.
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WorldWindJS is an interactive 3D globe library featuring imagery, maps, terrain and 2D projections from the Web WorldWind virtual globe SDK from NASA and ESA plus several community contributions.
The npm package worldwindjs receives a total of 2,224 weekly downloads. As such, worldwindjs popularity was classified as popular.
We found that worldwindjs demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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