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We just added a new video to Youtube. It shows our touch screen based geography quiz game based on OpenWebGlobe.

We are working on a mechanism to import COLLADA files to OpenWebGlobe. A first impression is here:

(updated March 29, 2012)

We are currently implementing Polygon/Polylines on Terrain (including edit/real-time update). Here are the first impressions:

The functionality will be available in the SDK soon.

On March 22 we will upgrade the openwebglobe.org servers. The web server may be down several hours.

Update: The server is now upgraded and running.

OpenWebGlobe forums are opened: http://forums.openwebglobe.org

The demo version of a potential 3D Viewer for geo.admin.ch is online at http://swiss3d.openwebglobe.org until July 31, 2012. The 3D Viewer is based on OpenWebGlobe.

The 3D scene is based on data from swisstopo: SWISSIMAGE, DHM25 and swissBOUNDARIES3D as well as extracts from swissBUILDINGS3D.

In addition, textured 3D objects from FHNW Muttenz and EPFL Lausanne are available. Outside the area with high-resolution data, Blue Marble from “NASA’s Earth Observatory” is used.

more information can be found here: Demo Viewer Switzerland 3D

OpenWebGlobe Data Processing Tools Version 0.9.1 and tutorials have been released (currently Windows only). With the OpenWebGlobe Data Processing Tools you can add your own elevation and image data to the globe.

https://github.com/OpenWebGlobe/DataProcessing/downloads

We just updated the beta version on http://www.openwebglobe.org/beta and support the new globe navigation.

We just added a new video to Youtube. It shows the swiss national park running in OpenWebGlobe.

POI can be added to the scene (of course with unicode support)

OpenStreetMap tiles can be streamed (and combined with other layers)

…and even combining layers with transparency is possible (in this example Landsat + OSM)

Here is a video of the WebGL version:

Streaming Elevation-Data now works!

Multiple layer support is now available. It is still an early implementation, but today it reached alpha state.

We decided OpenWebGlobe being Open Source

The code is available at github: https://github.com/OpenWebGlobe/WebViewer (MIT License)