Wikipedia plug-in for NASA World Wind
The plug-ins of NASA World Wind are very versatile in utility and their advantages and specialties are distinct. We will consider these Add-ons one by one as follows:
The first Plug-in which we are going to consider is the
GPS2 World Wind:
This Add-on basically has the feature and the specialty which allows it to function in such a way that it brings GPS and World Wind together.
Let us consider the features of this Plug- in they are as follows:
GPS2 World Wind Plug-in:
With the help of or the use of GPS2 World Wind you can do a lot of things which you normally cannot do. For example you can generate and show the tracks, routes and waypoints.
You can also transfer things like way points, routes and tracks from one place to another. For example you can transfer the above mentioned things form World Wind to your Personal Computer with the help of Garmin GPS device. This is an important aspect of World Wind which makes it possible for the users to be on the advantageous side always and in all the situations which are provided to them. Various Tracks, Waypoints and routes form GPX, PCX5, OZiExplorer or even a Google Map can be imported with the help of this Plug-in. Such is the flexibility of GPS2 plug-in. The current position ad the recent direction of the users with respect to World Wind is displayed due to GPS2 plug-in.
With the utilization of the GPS2 plug-in you can Follow World Wind with the dexterity of an helicopter. Note that for proper functioning of this Plug-in you have to use a proper Database. For example use the databases like Tourtech, QuoVadis. This will help you to use GPS2 plug-in to the fullest and you will get fewer problems in operating this Add-on.
GPS2 add-on displays the bitmap files which are available for example the files like (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and the others). These Bitmap files can be viewed as Maps in World Wind. These Bitmap files are viewed in World Wind as a superimposed application. GPS2 Plug-in also reduce the track points.
The best feature of this Plug-in is that there is no need of download GPS device to utilize this plug-in World Wind.
Heavenly Bodies Plug-in:
This Plug-in as the name suggests is related to the Heavenly Bodies. Heavenly bodies are those who are related to the solar system like planets the asteroids, Planets, and the other heavenly bodies. This Plug-in throws light on the Heavenly bodies and it is very informative plug-in too for all the users.
The examples which are involved in this Plug-in are as follows: Jupiter and its moons, Sun and moons it is according to the current world. So there is no danger of the information to be outdated since the information is updated after a specific interval of time. This Plug-in includes the planets and their moons for example it contains more than fifteen moons and also the presets for Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
To install this Plug-in download the heavenly bodies version 0.3 for World Wind 1.4 haul this file to the World Wind Plug-ins directory.
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