NASA World Wind FAQ
Why some time the feature, “insert mountain or other relief feature” does not work properly?
There could be many reasons for this. This feature works well if the area that you are observing is above the 600 latitude with elevation. Another reason can be if the data taken is obtained from sonar equipments. Since these measurements are taken from 90 meters, hills and mountains might looks strange in this mode. While you observe a city and if that city has hilly area then also you might get disturbed images even if the feature is on. This is due to the imagery problem as mentioned above. Not only hilly this same problem might occur with the skyscrapers also.
Why NASA world wind sometime uses all the CPU memory?
The main thing is that current version of NASA world wind is not designed to show high resolution near earth images. The team is aware of this problem and is working consistently to solve this problem. However, future releases of NASA world wind might not face such problem, and you can enjoy smooth ride over the world.
How to make the amount of cache adjustable?
For this you just have to press ALT+Q which would open up a dialog box. From this dialog box you can change the setting.
It is possible to copy cache data from one computer to another?
Yes it is possible to do so.
How to use 1.2e cache in 1.3?
This is a question which many users frequently ask. For using your 1.2e cache in 1.3 you can do the following.
a) First download the executable file from the official website.
b) Then try to Unzip the file in the NASA folder. This way you can find it easily later.
c) Then the 1.2e cache folders, which are to be converted, should be copied.
\NASA\World Wind v1.2\Cache\Earth\High-Resolution Terrain Mapped Imagery\JPL Global Landsat Mosaic (False-Color Bands – Panshapened).
\NASA\World Wind v1.2\Cache\Earth\High-Resolution Terrain Mapped Imagery\JPL Global Landsat Mosaic (Visible Bands - Panshapened)
Then copy and paste these folders from cache folder into the NASA root folder. The procedure for doing so is as follows.
a) first double click on the moving cache executable. This will open a small application windows which prompts you for the folder which you want to convert.
b) Then click the browser button and go to the location where you have copied both the above folders. Then select one of them.
c) Then click “Fix” which will do the job of conversion.
d) when this is done, choose the other folder, and repeat the procedure.
The cache folders and files will get converted after this and now you can view them in NASA World Wind 1.3.
a) Access the folder JPL Global Landsat Mosaic (False-Color Bands-Panshapened) and copy the folders from 0 thr 5 into the NASA World Wind 1.3 cache. Its location is: \NASA\World Wind 1.3\Cache\Earth\High Resolution Imagery\Community Landsat7 (Pseudo Color).
b) Then access the folder JPL Global Landsat Mosaic (for Visible Bands-Pandshapened). After this copy the folders 0 through 6 into NASA World Wind 1.3 Cache.
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