Bull's Rambles

NASA World Wind at GeoTunis 2010

bullsworld2007 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:52:52 +0000

Finally some World Wind news, Patrick Murris, one of World Wind’s foremost developers, will be hosting a World Wind workshop at GeoTunis 2010. The conference will be held between the 29th of November and the 3rd of December 2010 in Tunis and will be host to many GIS experts, the World Wind Workshop will comprise [...]

Offtopic – A new site by a friend

bullsworld2007 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:45:43 +0000

Here is a new site by Daniel, it deals with problems faced dealing with English Government agencies when you have a disability, specifically Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – http//www.danielsemail.com

Vector and Scalar Field Visualization Using NASA World Wind

bullsworld2007 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:35:05 +0000

Just a quick post to tell you all about Jim Miller’s useful and interesting work with NASA World Wind, here’s the link – http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/WorldWind/

Recording meetings in your own home

bullsworld2007 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:06:13 +0000

After having a bit of hassle with the NHS and Care Agency I decided to look up my rights, this information was very useful so I thought I would share it. The first thing to know is that it is perfectly legal to record audio and video in your own home, you can tell the [...]

Hooked on the Fly now airing

bullsworld2007 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:35:44 +0000

I’m a bit late with this news but Hooked on the Fly is now airing on The Sportsmans Channel, the satellite imagery used in this show was all created using NASA World Wind and uses only non-commercial satellite and orthoimagery. The air times are - Sunday 6:30 PM Tuesday 10:30 PM Wednesday 11:30 AM Thursday 2:00 AM Friday 6:30 AM [...]

Seasons Greetings

bullsworld2007 — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:52:34 +0000

I’d like to wish all the viewers of my site a Happy Christmas, if you don’t do Christmas then I wish you a good 25 and 26th of December on the Gregorian calender. Hope you all have fun and eat loads, here’s an ide post comments on how you celebrated along with your country, I’m [...]

NASA World Wind wins NASA Software of the Year award

bullsworld2007 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:14:59 +0000

At long last NASA has given credit to World Wind, Patrick Hogan, Project Manager for World Wind at NASA Ames, has just let me know that NASA has awarded this years Software of the Year award to NASA World Wind. Details are posted on the community run forum at WorldWind Central, Patrick goes on to [...]

Quick and dirty xml for World Wind .NET

bullsworld2007 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:06:16 +0000

I was reading the forum at last and came across someone mentioning Danish imagery in World Wind Java, this seemed a bit unfair to .NET users so I downloaded the WWJ SDK and converted the data from Scankort to a .NET xml, I also included the California NAIP (slow speeds) and open street map layers. [...]

Virgin Media fail

bullsworld2007 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:31:24 +0000

For the past couple of days I have been having problems with my internet connection dropping, the only solution being to do multiple reboots of the Modem. At first I obviously thought it was something I had done, I had updated my Tomato firmware to a newer version (Teddy Bear Mod), but I couldn’t spot [...]

Minor redesign

bullsworld2007 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:10:22 +0000

I have updated the welcome page text and made it the sites entry page, the aim is to make it more friendly and easier to use for new users, the blog posts will now appear at http://www.bullsworld.net/posts/ so current users may want to update their bookmarks, hopefully the RSS feed will automatically update. Any comments [...]