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NASA WorldWind v1.2.0 - Release Notes

Released July 19, 2011

Note: this is a mirror of the NASA WWJ v1.2.0 release created for posterity.

World Wind’s first public formal release. It’s undergone significant testing and contains important documentation that was missing from the previous “pre-alpha” daily releases. It also initiates a portal — goworldwind.org — that gathers into one place all information relative to understanding and using World Wind and its API.

This release of World Wind operates on all platforms World Wind has historically supported: OS X, Windows 32 & 64, Linux 32 & 64. It is expected to work on Solaris but has not been tested on that platform.

There are very few platform-specific dependencies. The most significant one is the absence of BrowserBalloon availability on Linux. This will be corrected at some point. All other platform dependencies are related to specific problems, such as the existence of a bug on one platform but not another. The bug database describes all such known problems.

The release 1.2 webinar slides are available for download.

Archived Subversion Release

This archived World Wind Java release has been migrated to GitHub from the World Wind Subversion server. Subversion hosts the original v1.2.0 source code. The source code links below reference the initial commit to GitHub and are incorrect.

v1.2.0 (July 19, 2011)

  • KML file parsing and display.
  • Improved Shapefile parsing and display performance.
  • GeoJSON file parsing and display.
  • Vector Product Format (VPF) database parsing and display
  • Web-browser balloons on Mac OS X and Windows that display HTML5 and JavaScript content.
  • 3D polygon and extruded polygon shapes.
  • 3D rigid shapes: ellipsoid, wedge, cylinder, cone, pyramid, box.
  • Improved 3D path/polyline shape.
  • Editors for 3D polygon and extruded polygon shapes.
  • Editors for 3D rigid shapes.
  • Line of sight intersections with 3D shapes and high-resolution terrain.
  • Improved on-screen layer manager. Integrated with KML file parsing and display.
  • Image and elevation data import using GDAL. Adds support for most common image and elevation data formats. Reduces the hard drive footprint and time required to import large datasets.
  • Bulk download / cache building support for surface image layers, place name layer, and elevation models.
  • Screen credit support for surface image layers.
  • New high resolution topographic maps for the United States.
  • High resolution NAIP imagery for the United States.
  • Improved image layer rendering performance.
  • Improved XML parsing performance.
  • WorldWindow application framework.
  • Simplified project structure and build scripts.
  • Applications and examples separated into a new JAR file: worldwindx.jar.
  • WMS server integrated into the World Wind project.
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