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2. Virtual globe - Wikipedia

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   NASA WorldWind, an open-source virtual globe with stars and advanced atmosphere & sunlight effects. A virtual globe is a three-dimensional (3D) software model or representation of Earth or another world. A virtual globe provides the user with the ability to freely move around in the virtual environment by changing the viewing angle and position.

3. Digital Earth - Wikipedia

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   In a speech [1] prepared for the California Science Center in Los Angeles on January 31, 1998, Gore described a digital future where schoolchildren - indeed all the world's citizens - could interact with a computer-generated three-dimensional spinning virtual globe and access vast amounts of scientific and cultural information to help them understand the Earth and its human activities.

4. NASA WorldWind - Wikipedia

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   NASA WorldWind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license and the Apache 2.0 license) virtual globe. According to the website, "WorldWind is an open source virtual globe API. WorldWind allows developers to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of 3D globe, map and geographical information.

5. World map - Wikipedia

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   All world maps are based on one of several map projections, or methods of representing a globe on a plane. All projections distort geographic features, distances, and directions in some way. The various map projections that have been developed provide different ways of balancing accuracy and the unavoidable distortion inherent in making world maps.

6. LeapFrog Enterprises - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 December 2024. American educational entertainment and electronics company "LeapFrog" redirects here. For the children's game, see Leapfrog. For other uses, see Leapfrog (disambiguation). This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available ...

7. Category:Virtual globes - Wikipedia

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   A virtual globe is a software that simulates a globe (normally the Earth). ... 3D World Atlas; A. Apple Maps; B. Bhuvan; Bing Maps; Bing Maps Platform; Biosphere3D; E ...