[Openstreetmap] Re: Goole Earth and the free software equivalent - Earth 3D

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Chris Holmes]
> There's also worldwind: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
> It's open source, though unfortunately written in .NET, not the most
> open source friendly language.

Does it work on Linux?  I only have linux machines available.

> There seems to be a pretty decent community around it though, for
> awhile they had much better global coverage than google earth, but
> am not sure if that's still the case.  The thing I really like about
> it is that it supports WMS, an open standard for overlaying mapping
> data, instead of reinventing the wheel with KML.

Isn't earth3d supporting WMS?  I thought it did, but did not really
check.