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<div>{{Infobox Software<br />
| name = Earth3D<br />
| screenshot = [[File:earth3d.jpg]]<br />
| caption = Screenshot of Earth3d running under [[Linux]]<br />
| developer = [[Dominique Andre Gunia]]<br />
| released = August 2004<br />
| programming language = C++, Java<br />
| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] [[Windows 2000|2000]], [[Windows XP|XP]] & [[Windows Vista|Vista]], [[Mac OS X]], [[Linux]]<br />
| language = english<br />
| genre = [[Virtual globe]]<br />
| license = [[GPL]]<br />
| website = http://www.earth3d.org/<br />
}}<br />
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Earth3D was developed as part of a diploma thesis to display a virtual globe of the earth. It was developed before Google bought [[Keyhole, Inc]] and changed their product into [[Google Earth]]. Earth3D downloads its data (satellite imagery and height data) from a server while the user navigates around. The data itself is saved in a [[Quadtree]].<br />
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The original version of Earth3D was developed using Trolltech's [[Qt (toolkit)|QT]] framework. Later a version built with Java and [[JOGL]] was developed. But the demand for a Java based version was very little. This may be because NASA's [[WorldWind]] also has an open source Java version. So most people wanted to use a C++ based globe in their applications. That was the reason why a minimalized version, the Earth3dlib was developed. It contains only the most necessary functions to display the earth itself and to add own visualizations to it.<br />
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All these three projects can be retrieved from Sourceforge's CVS (C++) or Subversion (Java) repository.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.earth3d.org The main website of the project]<br />
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[[Category:Virtual globes]]<br />
[[Category:NASA]]<br />
[[Category:Cartography]]<br />
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