06.12.23 added Ultramundum/4DGea to Italy 06.12.08 added Realistic and Interactive Simulation of Rivers to Water 06.12.06 added Rendering Grass Terrains in Real-Time with Dynamic Lighting to Plant Papers
added Real-Time Editing, Synthesis, and Rendering of Infinite Landscapes on GPUs to Artificial Terrain06.11.14 added Digital Nursery to Plant Images 06.11.11 added urban futures laboratory projects to Australia and China
added Seumas Young's Terrain Tutorial to LOD Implementations06.11.08 added Microsoft's "Virtual Earth 3D" to Commercial Software
added SoTerrain to LOD Implementations06.10.31 added X-Plane to Flight-Sims 06.10.24 added Real-Time Visualization of Large Textured Terrains to LOD Papers
added Dreamlands to Artificial / Artistic06.10.19 added Point of Interest to Free Imagery Sources 06.10.17 there are now 6650 VTP recipients in 132 countries with recent addition of Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Libya.. 06.10.14 added EarthSculptor to Artificial / Artistic 06.10.13 added Google 3D Warehouse Cities in Development throughout Locations
added 3DGeoInfo'06 to Community06.10.10 added Archivideo to City Modeling Services 06.10.03 noted the SINTEF globe is now called Norkart Virtual Globe
added GRIFINOR to Noncommercial Tools06.09.19 added PagesJaunes 'Ville en 3D' Beta to France 06.09.17 added a historical village near B. Štiavnica, Slovakia to Europe 06.09.07 added palazzo Bovara and piazza del Doumo to Italy
added Synchro Studio 3D Viewer to Commercial Tools
many updates to Roads, Vehicles and Traffic06.09.05 added SUMO to Vehicles 06.08.31 updates to Hawai'i Imagery 06.08.27 added 3D Warehouse and updates to Vehicles 06.08.24 created How to use Blender with OSG/VTP 06.08.13 added Antarctica Virtua to International 06.08.01 several updates to Commercial Imagery Sources 06.07.26 added Magnago Virtuale to Italy 06.07.24 added LandXplorer CityGML Tool to Cities 06.07.21 added Terrain Rendering using Spherical Clipmaps to LOD Papers 06.07.17 added Dachsbacher's giant paper Interactive Terrain Rendering to Artificial Terrain and Geotypical Textures 06.07.10 added France 3D to Software Utilizing the VTP 06.07.07 updated SRTM to indicate CGIAR-CSI offers cleaned up SRTM data for download 06.07.06 added papers to Cities: Research 06.07.01 added CitySurf to Commercial 06.06.28 filled in some VMAP1 history (Free World Map, NIMA vs. Enemies of the State) on Data Openness 06.06.12 added Géoportail to France (in Europe)
added Infinity to Artificial Terrain06.06.08 added Trian3D Builder to Commercial 06.06.03 added Cruiser and its Greece on-line demo to Commercial and Europe 06.06.02 updated papers of Bedřich Beneš on Water
added Adaptive [..] Strip Masks to LOD Papers06.05.30 added C-BDAM to LOD Papers 06.05.29 added SilverLining to Clouds 06.05.17 added surfit to Contour Data 06.05.12 added Google moves into virtual worlds to Hype 06.05.10 added MegaCITY Hawaii and other updates to Oahu 06.04.28 added Lumo Builder to Artificial Scene Tools 06.04.26 added Terrain Rendering on Cell Processor to LOD Papers 06.04.24 added GPU-Friendly High-Quality Terrain Rendering to LOD Papers 06.04.19 updates to UK (London and Bath) and Brazil 06.04.18 updated Sunlit Designs / Sun API on Sky / Atmosphere 06.04.09 updated Planetary Terrain Rendering on Spherical Grids 06.04.05 added ME-DEM to Beyond Earth 06.03.24 added Free Our Data: the blog to Openness 06.03.23 updated CommunityViz SiteBuilder 3D on Commercial Tools 06.03.22 improved description of USGS building footprints
added HawaiianImages.net aerials to Hawai‘i Island Imagery06.03.16 added Lenné3D-Xplorer to Commercial Tools, updated Lenné3D on Plant Software and Academic Projects
added CityGRID to Services06.03.15 added Quest3D to Commercial Tools 06.03.05 added CyberCity AG models of Salzburg, Paris, Los Angeles 06.03.04 updated International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) on Community including their 2006 and 2007 events 06.03.03 updates to Oahu 06.03.02 added Paul Bourke's textures page to Ground Cover and Buildings 06.03.01 added osgEphemeris to Atmosphere
there are now 6350 VTP recipients in 126 countries with today's addition of Kyrgyzstan06.02.27 added Jonathan de Ferranti's mountain peak elevation data to SRTM 06.02.24 added EarthSLOT to the Academic Projects page
added Sean O'Neil's Procedural Universe to Atmosphere and Artificial Terrain06.02.22 there are now images and video from the Holbeck Urban Village Model (Leeds, UK) 06.02.19 added French VTP tutorial by Bruno Basli 06.02.18 began Press section with articles Virtual globes: The web-wide world and Digital Reality: Comparing Geographic Exploration Systems 06.02.17 added Fractal Terrains Pro to Artificial / Artistic
added ORBITER Space Simulator to Atmosphere and Spherical Textures
added UniView Halo Surfaces to Commercial06.02.10 added OSGeo to Community 06.02.06 added Geo Dec to Cities: Research 06.01.30 added Leica Virtual Explorer to Commercial 06.01.22 added batchgeocode.com to Geocoding 06.01.21 added Island of Ni‘ihau dataset to the Repository 06.01.20 added Leeds 3D to UK
added SIMurban to Commercial06.01.19 added Edushi (E都市) to China 06.01.13 added Ni‘ihau Photoreal Scenery to Hawaii: Other Islands
added Virtual Crops to Plant Research Projects06.01.09 gave Italy its own page 06.01.03 added paper A 3D Visualization System for Hurricane Storm-Surge Flooding (pdf) to Software Utilizing the VTP
05.12.29 made VTBuilder available as a standalone app 05.12.15 added Bugaboo dataset to Canada and the reorganized Repository 05.12.14 added Blue Marble Next Generation to Whole-Earth Imagery 05.12.03 updated SRTM with SRTM Version 2 info 05.11.12 added Google Earth to Commercial and wrote a review of Google Earth 3.0 05.10.20 added a simple tutorial on how to use the VTP software 05.10.19 updated library chart on Implementation 05.09.30 added Road Network File (RNF) to Canada 05.09.29 added Manningham VTP snapshots to Australia 05.09.26 added news site SlashGISRS
added World Wind Central to Government05.09.22 added VWorldTerrain to Commercial 05.09.14 added Novapoint Virtual Map to Commercial 05.09.02 There are now 6050 VTP recipients in 125 countries, with today's addition of Uzbekistan 05.09.01 added Trier and Noe's GPU water simulation to Water 05.08.30 added VIPIR to Commercial 05.08.18 added HadesGL to Caves
added EPA LandView Terrain Viewer to Government05.08.16 added CityGML to Cities 05.08.14 new page for the Hawai‘i USDA/Emerge aerials 05.08.08 added French translation for the VTP apps (i18n) 05.08.03 added CUPUM to Community 05.07.27 added INEGI CEM (Mexico DEMs) to North America 05.07.14 added GEBCO to Bathymetry with a visual comparison to other datasets 05.07.13 added Plant-Life to Plant Software 05.07.12 added Arboretum to Plant Software, Forester to Forestry
updates to Marco Zgraggen's NYC Model
added Realtime Foliage Billboard Library to Plant Images05.07.11 updated Dr.P's links (Algorithmic Botany) and noted The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants is online as a PDF
added Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games to Water05.07.10 created an online summary of the VTP plant library
added papers (1, 2) on Smoothing Filter-Based Intensity Modulation (SFIM) to Processing Multi-band Images05.07.08 added Virtual Heritage Network to Community 05.07.05 found the new home of SmartForest II (Forestry) 05.06.27 added osgPlanet to Noncommercial 05.06.23 added GeoTango GlobeView to Commercial
added Scene Express+LGM to Physical Output05.06.07 added Instant Architecture paper to Buildings 05.06.06 added J. Royan's PBTree paper to Buildings,
Wissenbach Map3D to Noncommercial05.06.05 added PolyTrans-for-MAX to 3D Modeling Software 05.06.02 added the USDA-NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway to Imagery Sources 05.05.13 added Open Data Consortium to Data Openness 05.05.10 added Nverse Photo to Buildings and Cities 05.05.08 added fGIS to GIS, ScienceGL to Commercial, PnP TerrainCreator to Artificial 05.05.06 added VR Huaian / Hongzehu (was at http://17de.com/huaian/) 05.05.04 There are now 5600 VTP recipients in 121 countries, with today's addition of Armenia 05.04.14 added Konrad Pietras' GPU-based atmosphere rendering to Sky 05.04.07 added UNEP WDPA to International 05.03.10 added Apeldoorn 3D article to Europe 05.03.06 added NVIZ to GIS software
added Finelight Visual Technology to Water
added GENETICS to Gov/Academic Research Projects05.03.04 added geocoder.us to Geocoding 05.02.23 added ams's LandSat tutorial to Processing Multi-band Images 05.02.22 added Breakaway to Defense
added GeoSim to Community and Hype05.02.18 added Blue Rock Flight Studio to Commercial Tools 05.02.15 added Italy eXplorer to Europe 05.02.14 added Rendering Procedural Terrain by Geometry Image Warping to LOD Papers 05.02.11 added a Roof Generation paper to Roofs 05.02.09 added Xi'an Qujiang visualization to China 05.02.02 added CompeGPS to Commercial Tools 05.01.24 added How in the World? Terrain Textures to Geotypical 05.01.21 added GeoFusion Mars Demo to Beyond Earth 05.01.10 added Treemagik-G2 to Plant Software 05.01.06 added Arbaro to Plant Software
04.12.15 added Typhoon engine to Water 04.12.03 added the work of the Virtual Heritage Lab of CNR-ITABC (Italy) 04.11.24 added OpenStreetMap and MapOntology wiki to Roads
added SpacEyes3D to Commercial04.10.29 updates to Data Openness
new page on Location-specific terrain software
added Photoscape 3D04.10.20 added Hawai‘i 1977 OrthoQuads (1.2 GB) 04.10.19 added libnova and Ralf Nielsen's Atmospheric Scattering paper to Sky / Atmosphere
the AIS TerrainTeam is back04.10.14 added many links to the UC Berkeley Digital Topo Maps to International 04.10.01 added NOAA Aerials to Hawai‘i Imagery 04.09.22 added Earth3D to Noncommercial 04.09.21 added Getmapping and bluesky to Commercial imagery 04.09.17 added FreeWorld3D to Artificial 04.09.16 updates to LandSerf on Noncommercial 04.09.15 added VWorld (used in Dark&Light) to Games 04.09.09 added Piscatus to Commercial Software 04.09.08 added Voxlap Demo to Caves 04.09.03 added World Wind to Government
added JPL OnEarth Global Mosaic to Imagery Sources
many updates to Hawai‘i04.08.31 added Continuum sky textures to Sky 04.08.24 improved page on Coordinate Systems 04.08.20 added a VTP project at FIU under Florida 04.08.19 updated Bathymetry 04.08.14 There are now 5500 VTP recipients in 118 countries, with today's addition of Cameroon 04.08.06 added UBIQ New Caledonia to International 04.08.04 added SAGA to GIS Software 04.07.14 SRTM for Australia is now online
added P-BDAM to LOD Papers, V-Planet to Academic04.07.08 added Geoscape3d to Artificial 04.06.17 new page on Data Openness 04.06.16 added Rendering Forests in Real-Time to Plant Papers
updates to Kaua‘i and New York04.06.15 added Geometry clipmaps to LOD Papers 04.06.09 added planet-earth.org to Noncommercial 04.06.03 added fourDscape to Commercial Tools 04.05.20 added Clint Brewer's Rainbow approach to Sky
updates to New York City04.05.19 added PixelSense to Processing Imagery 04.05.05 added projected grid concept [claes.galaxen.net/ex/ now gone] to Water
added Real-Time Atmospheric Scattering to Sky04.04.23 added Illustrated Architecture Dictionary 04.04.12 added Terramodel to Commercial Tools 04.04.09 added Stephan Heigl's work on sky color 04.03.31 new page on Network Protocols
added ResMap to Free Imagery
added Proiectul România Digitala04.03.30 added YDreams to Europe 04.03.29 updated Ecomodeler on Commercial Tools
added The Getaway to Buildings and Cities04.03.19 the VTP apps are starting to be internationalized 04.03.15 added Positional Astronomy to Sky / Atmosphere 04.03.04 many new SOEST links on the Hawai‘i pages 04.03.03 added several DXF libraries to CAD 04.02.27 updates to Large Textures in Hardware 04.02.25 added screenshots of shadow casting 04.02.24 added GeoShow3D to Commercial Tools 04.02.18 updated Getting USGS Data 04.02.17 updated VF spec to 2.0 04.02.12 added SRTM Void Killer to Global Elevation 04.02.11 added ike to Surveying 04.02.10 added Simulation of Rain paper to Rain page 04.02.03 added iGage - All Topo Maps to DRG 04.01.28 added Sanborn CitySets to Buildings and Cities
updates to Large Textures
updated product ViewTec TerrainView04.01.27 added NextMap links for several countries
03.12.24 added SRTMFill to Global Elevation Datasets
added Autodesk Envision to Commercial03.12.23 added some Snow papers 03.12.18 added EarthSat GeoCover NaturalVue 2000 to Commercial Imagery 03.12.08 added Misty Hill Terravisual to UK 03.12.02 added Joe Dart's water demo to Water 03.11.25 added SimPortal.Org to Community 03.11.24 added GeoBase to Canada 03.11.21 Global Mapper can also convert Contours 03.11.19 added Etercalc to Roofs 03.10.29 added Descensor to Procedural Buildings 03.10.27 added Antarctica RAMP DEM to Locations 03.10.21 created page for Locations file format 03.10.15 gave Planning its own page, added VisuLands 03.10.13 added MODIS RRS to Free Imagery 03.10.11 added VRCO vGeo to Commercial
updates to Flight-Sims03.10.08 updates to UK data sources 03.10.07 added Niniane Wang's work to Clouds 03.10.03 added Ranger Mk II to LOD Implementations 03.10.01 added the work of Bedřich Beneš to Plant Papers and Water 03.09.29 added TerraServer (both commercial and free) 03.09.24 added a Romanian file to the BT Repository 03.09.23 added Elba to Tourism
wrote page on Cell Registration03.09.18 more about ASTER on Satellite Imagery 03.09.12 added GDF to Roads 03.08.25 updated Global Elevation Datasets for SRTM30 03.08.21 added TerrainServer to Commercial 03.08.19 added IMAGIS to Commercial 03.08.14 updates to Nevada and Romania 03.08.08 added Sven Forstmann's 'Voxel' engine to Caves 03.08.07 added EDF (transportation network format) to Roads 03.08.04 added 3D Downtown Oakville to GIS 03.07.31 many updates to Canada 03.07.29 added a review of MapCube UrbanViewer 03.07.28 updated TUMONZ on New Zealand 03.07.25 added MapCube Urban Viewer to Commercial 03.07.24 added VTP projects in Santa Barbara and Arizona
added Stefan Greuter's work to Procedural Buildings03.07.23 added Coiba to Repository and Screenshots
expanded Roads03.07.22 added UK OS real-world object catalog to Culture
updates to UK
thanks to the new Geospatial One-Stop, found new data sources for areas including Oahu03.07.17 notes on combining image bands on Satellite Imagery 03.07.16 gave the UK its own page 03.07.12 added WinKarst to new page on Caves
added L3DT to Artificial03.07.03 added ARSIST to Satellite
new page on Fog, Rain, and Lighting03.07.01 SRTM (~90m DEM) is now online for North and South America 03.06.29 new Screenshot of WMS imagery with feature labels 03.06.19 new Screenshots of globe unfolding and blue marble draping 03.06.13 added Simulation of Cloud Dynamics on Graphics Hardware and A Real-Time Cloud Modeling, Rendering, and Animation System (Swell) to Clouds 03.06.12 paper for Infinite Universe Engine now available in English
added Blustery Trees to Plant Papers03.06.03 added TerraTracer to Commercial
added a stunning MODIS image to Hawai‘i03.06.02 added Simon Jude's work on Visualisation of the Norfolk Coast 03.05.31 added Power Render Landscape Studio to Games 03.05.15 (site upgraded to use more CSS; pages should load faster)
added MrSID to Satellite / Aerial Images03.05.11 added CityEngine to Buildings and Cities 03.05.01 added Infinite Universe Engine to Academic 03.04.30 updated info for the University of Zurich Landscape Visualization Lab on Academic 03.04.29 added Gscape to Artificial 03.04.23 added Issues with alpha values in texture-mapped billboards 03.04.22 added 3DNWorld under 3D Nature Studio on Commercial 03.04.19 added Philo's Sky Collection to Sky
(packaged some for Enviro on Skydome Images)03.04.15 added 3D viz of the Traunsee region to Tourism 03.04.14 exposed new Costa Rica elevation in BT Repository
added lighting flat objects tutorial to Plant Modeling03.04.13 added JPSD and RTV to Defense 03.04.08 updated Gizmo3D entry, moved it to Commercial
added hardware geomorphing paper to LOD Papers03.04.01 put Microsoft on its own page, with a 1-line review of Encarta's latest Virtual Flights feature
added a few links to Whole-Earth Images03.03.28 a batch of 220 VTP CDs was mailed today; there are now 3640 recipients in 100 countries 03.03.27 added Artificial Planet to Artificial / Artistic 03.03.26 notes are being added frequently to New York 03.03.25 added MaxMind GeoIP to Geocoding 03.03.24 added Gerstner's global LOD paper to Spherical Grids 03.03.16 added NYCEM to New York, HAZUS to Misc 03.03.13 added the GeoURL project to Geocoding 03.03.10 added Aasgaard's map projection to Spherical Textures 03.03.09 added VRvis 3D City Modeling project to Cities
clarified INTEC data vendor on International and Costa Rica
new page on the U.S. Survey Foot03.03.08 expanded BRC page 03.03.06 added Enviro snapshots and Timeformations to New York 03.03.05 added Ervin's Landscape Modeling book
added Manitoba Land Initiative to Canada03.02.28 added Feature Analyst to DRG 03.02.03 added EOSL's data to Costa Rica
added CatchmentSIM to Water03.01.29 added PODS to linear structures 03.01.28 added Kencho's whitepaper to Atmosphere 03.01.11 added Virtual Slyne-with-Hest to International 03.01.10 added several items to Geocoding 03.01.06 added Modeling and Rendering of Atmospheric Effects and Night Rendering to Sky 03.01.04 added The Virtual Old Prague Project to International
added BlueMarbleViewer to several places03.01.03 added POV-Ray and GT to Artificial / Artistic
added terrify to LOD Implementations03.01.02 added Revit Parametric Building Modeler to CAD Software 03.01.01 added Solid Terrain Modeling to Misc
02.12.30 added TruEarth 30 meter to Whole-Earth Images 02.12.26 added CyberCity to Community, some of their work to Locations, and their their papers to Buildings and Cities 02.11.28 added paper on Display of High Contrast Images to Dynamic Range
added Digital Grove to Community02.11.26 updated LandForm products including their new TerrainServer (pdf) 02.11.25 added IDV to Noncommercial
added NASA Digital Earth PC to Government / Academic02.11.18 added to Community: geosimulation.org, CitySimulation and urbansimulation.com
added GeoViz and InterSCOPE products to Commercial
added ArcGIS Desktop Data Models to GIS02.10.25 added Geographic Transformer to Aerial Imagery 02.10.24 added geoENABLER [digitalearth.org] to Community, TOPP to the front page
added latest Dr. P paper to Plant Papers
new page for Australia02.10.23 updated VTST format to the latest, GML-based schema
added a description of the VF format02.10.16 added Virtual New Zealand to Tourism 02.10.10 added NASA ESAD to Free Imagery Sources
added ASTER DEM to Other Elevation Data
integrated NMR Thesaurus into Culture Classification02.10.09 added Interactive Visualization of Complex Plant Ecosystems, Lenné 3D, and Oliver Deussen's latest work to Plant Papers 02.10.08 updated page on Xfrog 02.09.18 added Ecoviewer to Commercial Tools
added some software to Roofs page02.09.17 updated Implementation Library chart
added AccuTrans 3D to Commercial Tools02.08.22 added Digital Egypt 3D to Locations
added aeliom to Artificial Terrain Tools02.08.21 added E00 to GIS
added Mojave Desert Ecosystem Program to California
added BIL and BSQ to Image Formats02.08.05 greatly expanded page on Roofs 02.08.04 added Using Virtual Cities to Plan Real Cities to China
added NovaPOINT Virtual Map to CAD02.08.02 added Rendering of Alpine Terrain paper to Geotypical 02.08.01 added UCLA UST projects to Tourism and elsewhere
added AIMSUM 3D to Vehicles02.07.30 new page on Software Utilizing the VTP 02.07.29 added Eingana to Tourism 02.07.21 added Hangzhou to China and the front page
02.07.18 added 3DIMap to Commercial
added SIMDIS to Defense
new page on New Zealand02.07.17 added Panoramica to Sky
added Sean O'Neil's floating-point precision article
added University of Zurich VisLab to Academic02.07.16 the VTP has joined forces with The Open Planning Project 02.07.09 added World Machine to Artificial Terrain Tools
created new page on Distance
added K2VI to Commercial Tools02.06.12 added Maya Paint Effects to Plant Software 02.06.07 added 3DCarto to Commercial 02.06.06 added the island of Kaho‘olawe, along with data and imagery in the Repository, and a mention in Tourism
updated 3DEM on Commercial with its many new features02.06.04 added EarthViewer to Commercial and wrote up an evaluation of it as well 02.05.26 added Sanborn Maps to Buildings and Cities 02.05.25 two new screenshots were uploaded recently 02.05.22 added SpeedTree and TreesDesigner to Plant Software 02.05.20 added Terrain Shadow Maps paper to Shadows,
gave Dynamic Range its own page02.05.19 added Lindstrom's SOAR and Ernest Szoka's T-Strip LOD to Implementations
expanded Spherical Grid LOD and gave it its own page02.05.18 the rate of downloads has increased recently,
there are now 2250 recipients in 93 countries02.05.17 added Danny Chapman's gliding flight sim to Implementations 02.05.14 added another cloud modeling paper
added LiveDolomiti to Tourism02.05.13 added Maptitude to GIS
SkyWorks now has source available (on Clouds page)02.04.28 new page on Power Lines
added Gaia3D's software to Commercial Tools02.04.07 added an atmospheric modeling paper to Sky / Atmosphere
added Umeå University VRlab to Academic02.03.23 added Flying Over Switzerland to Tourism 02.03.18 added Mark Harris's SkyWorks demo to Clouds
updates to Vehicles regarding traffic simulation02.03.15 added GrassTest to Plant Modeling 02.03.13 added lScape to Implementations 02.03.11 added Gottfried Chen's realtime implementation to Water 02.02.21 added the NASA Blue Marble images to Whole-Earth, including Dymaxion-projected versions for use with Enviro 02.02.01 a batch of VTP CDs were mailed last month, bringing the number of recipients to 1700 in 88 countries 02.01.27 added some files to BT Repository (Kaua‘i, Japan) 02.01.08 added Hoppe's Puget Sound demo to Runtime TIN LOD 02.01.01 added Thatcher Ulrich's chunkdemo to LOD Implementations
01.12.30 added sections on Classification to Buildings and Plant Distribution 01.12.29 gave South Africa its own page, much expanded 01.12.16 added section on formats to CAD Software
added dVPS to Rendering Performance01.12.08 added Henri Hakl's Diamond Terrain to LOD Papers 01.11.28 added Procedural Landscapes to LOD Papers and to Detail Textures / Blending 01.11.24 added several Lighting papers to Sky / Atmosphere 01.11.20 added A Physically-Based Nightsky Model to Sky 01.11.19 updated Global Mapper (was dlgv32pro)
expanded Geotypical Imagery01.11.06 added Visual Nature Studio to Commercial Tools 01.11.01 added Terraform to Noncommercial 01.10.31 added USGS NLCD to Plant Distribution
added the TEC's Resources and Survey to Defense01.10.25 added Digital Landscapes and Virtual Gardening to Plant Software
added Virtual Garden Walkthrough to Tourism01.10.24 added some notes on caves
added C-Genesis and Equater to Commercial Tools
added Contour It to Contour Data01.10.15 added AIS Virtual Cities to Defense
new page: Support the VTP01.10.12 added earthinfo to Free Imagery Sources 01.10.05 added Johan Hammes' Modelling of ecosystems paper 01.10.04 gave Canada it's own page under Locations 01.10.01 added Virtual Florida Everglades to Tourism 01.09.30 fixed Ratcliff data in the BT repository 01.09.29 added ANUDEM to Contour Data 01.09.27 added Deep-Water Rendering paper to Water 01.09.26 added Procedural Planet to Artificial Terrain
added new Lindstrom et. al. to LOD Papers01.09.25 added 3DField to Contour Data 01.09.23 added SINTEF Virtual Globe to Noncommercial
added NOAA GLOBE Project to Elevation Data01.08.31 added MojoWorld to new Artificial Tools page 01.08.29 revised library chart under VTP Implementation 01.08.28 added dlgv32 Pro and TerrainViz to Commercial Tools 01.08.27 added CSP to Noncommercial 01.08.19 added to Contour Data 01.08.18 added D. Dufke's engine1 to LOD Implementations 01.08.17 updated LSS Vista / 3D Vantage in Commercial Tools
added Bionatics to Plant Tools01.08.13 added 3-D TopoQuads to Commercial Tools 01.08.05 added 3D Flight Over Switzerland to Tourism 01.08.03 updated SRTM 01.08.01 added RealSite / InReality to Commercial Tools 01.07.22 added Diamond to CLOD Implementations 01.07.20 added a Snow paper to Ground Cover 01.07.08 added City Generator, some academic papers and more to Buildings and Cities 01.06.22 added g3DGVM to Non-commercial tools 01.06.14 some more data sources in Locations 01.06.04 added Radon Labs to Spherical LOD 01.05.20 added evaluation of the Blueberry3d Viewer 01.05.02 added Real-Time Cloud Rendering to Clouds 01.04.26 new link for ROAM in LOD Papers
added G-Vista and SiteBuilder3D to Commercial tools01.04.22 added BTS to Vector Data
added Manifold to GIS Software
added l-Vis to Forestry01.04.13 this site was mentioned on Slashdot 01.04.10 added Slices to Plant Modeling and Rendering 01.03.23 gave SDTS its own page 01.03.07 new: Global Data Sharing/Referencing
added EnVision to Forestry01.03.05 updates to GIS and Locations 01.03.04 added Exoflight to spherical grid LOD 01.02.22 added to ground and detail textures 01.02.16 added J.Hasting's 4km image to Whole-Earth
major shipment today, 413 CDs went out01.02.15 new: documentation for VTP Vegetation 01.02.13 added to Buildings, CAD, and vtlib Buildings
new: Roofs01.02.11 updated vtlib 01.02.06 added i-cubed to Commercial imagery
updated Buildings01.01.31 added GPS info
added LandSerf to Noncommercial01.01.30 added to Roads and Rail and Fences
more documentation for vtlib01.01.27 new image for Kaua‘i 01.01.26 added EarthVision to Commercial tools
added TruEarth to Whole-Earth Images01.01.25 more on GPS devices in Data Collection 01.01.23 added section on Rocks
new: Representing Unknown Values01.01.22 new version of the BT format
updated Repository with samples in the new version01.01.19 added new VTP demo screenshots 01.01.18 added Andreas Ögren to published LOD papers
00.10.22 added SpatialAce to commercial tools 00.09.05 new: Flight-Sims 00.09.04 added datum to Coordinate Systems 00.08.29 added DFAD to vector data
updated Nevada00.08.26 added to sky and dynamic range
reorganized implementation00.08.09 new: Honoka‘a 00.08.08 gave Xfrog its own page
added Leveller to commercial tools00.08.06 new: Spherical Textures 00.08.03 new stuff in atmosphere and clouds 00.08.02 new: elevation repository of BT data 00.08.01 added STK to commercial tools 00.07.27 added XTerra to LOD implementations 00.06.19 new: Geocoding addresses 00.04.19 shipped a new VTP CD, 100 recipients 00.04.06 created new list of current goals / areas of development 00.03.10 redesigned site layout 00.01.27 shipped a new VTP CD, 25 recipients 00.02.10 SMTerrain memory usage reduced to 3 bytes/vertex 00.01.10 new terrain LOD algorithm SMTerrain, reduces the memory required from 16-36 to 4-5 bytes/vertex!
99.12.29 shipped a new VTP CD, 16 recipients 99.12.20 added support for GTOPO30 99.12.09 added support for DTED0 99.12.05 added limited support for CDF files (bathymetry) 99.11.17 the whole project gets a new name: VTP, Toolbox and Enviro 99.10.26 procedural buildings now support 2 shapes, 3 roof types, windows and doors 99.10.25 stop signs and stoplights are now placed at approximately correct locations at intersections 99.10.04 road-building now supports up to 4 lanes, variable traffic directions, margins and sidewalks 99.09.30 RBuilder's roadmap topology cleanup much improved 99.08.28 showed the Nevada demo world in a solar-powered touch-screen kiosk at Burning Man 1999 99.08.25 major improvement to TBrowser, including bilinear sampling 99.08.24 runtime now supports multiple simultaneous terrains 99.07.30 Added a couple island pix and some misc. new links here-and-there 99.07.12 Updates to building and city, implementation notes
Reorganized terrain data sources by type: point, vector, and polygonal99.06.03 Added an eval of 3D analyst and some more stuff to atmosphere 99.05.18 New notes on hawai`i buildings 99.05.04 Added a page on using xfrog for hawaiian plants 99.04.27 Found a fascinating source of NASA aerial photos
Expanded other virtual hawai`i into a page of its own99.04.03 Added page on hawaiian plant textures 99.03.31 Added pages on applying textures and GIS 99.03.24 Added a recent data gathering trip to the big island 99.03.05 Created a FAQ 99.03.01 Added pages on plant texture maps and expanded plant life in general 99.02.20 Lots of growth in virtual hawai`i under plants, animals, etc. 99.01.19 New virtual terrain pages on integrating and navigation 99.01.02 Added pages of explanation and thanks to virtual hawai`i
98.11.20 Updated hawai`i plants page with maps of rainfall and vegetation 98.11.16 Added some geography and vegetation stuff for virtual hawai`i, and more notes on my house. 98.10.12 Lots more stuff in virtual hawai`i, around 30% growth. I've been working hard on this project for a long time... 98.07.29 Extended terrain notes under virtual hawai`i 98.03.09 Greatly expanded virtual hawai`i
97.11.18 New and updated info on sim hawai'i 97.05.08 Fixed, improved layout, and expanded hawai'i pages