I came across the attached. It has no date or author, so I’m not sure where it came from. It references (http://www.crcsi.com.au/assets/Resou...March-2015.pdf), so I know it is at least since March 2015. I am working on a mapping project for the U.S. Air Force. I am aware that both the Air Force and the Navy are looking at using GeoServer on the back-end and CesiumJS or OpenLayers on the front end. Having worked in geospatial technologies for years, and having looked at GeoServer, CesiumJS and NASA WorldWind, I’m surprised that the Air Force and Navy aren’t using NASA WorldWind. Is there a more recent, more thorough, and attributed comparison of NASA WorldWind and competing platforms?
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First off you need to know your requirements which I know your customers have to the uttermost detail. As far as I know there is no NASA WorldWind group anymore and your customers may know that. As far as I know I am the only one working with it but only for Android Mobile. Anything using JavaScript you need to be careful with since it may not scale to the users needs as far as mobile goes but you may be fine with a laptop with a good GPU. ESRI is really new to the game of virtual globes if that is what your customer wants so there is some risk there. I am not sure about openLayers. Be careful about elevations. Your GeoServer needs to support Bil format which unless you get it from NASA server which serves it I am the only one who has a GeoServer redesigned to serve it. When NASA WorldWind shut down it's servers I was ok because I was prepared and not using them for awhile. Which ever solution you go with needs good examples and support extendibility. Oh yes beware of java solutions since Oracle now charges license fees.
I have screenshots and short videos of what can be done with older versions of WorldWind that I extended and for mobile had to almost do a complete rewrite due to performance and resource issues on mobile devices.
Here is my url for my web site: http://www.myuniportal.com also here is the url for my android mobile apps on google play. I used to have over 8 but downsized to the popular ones and a new one for public safety.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ecito&hl=en_US
The Mars and Moon apps are quite popular and the Wildfire is probably what the Armed Services get excited about if they knew it existed. It has a special threat status layer that took some time to create but is awesome.:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...aware&hl=en_US
Beware the Wildfire one is in progress of adding AI for Assessability which has strong implications for the Armed Services.
Enjoy,
Tony Anecito
Founder/President
MyUniPortal LLC
http://www.myuniportal.com
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