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[wcmatthysen]

Hi Peter,

I saw that you made quite a number of changes to the WorldWind code-base. Would you be interested in helping us merge some of your fixes into the community-edition of WorldWind that is located at:

https://github.com/WorldWindEarth/WorldWindJava

A couple of us started a fork of the code-base a few days ago, seeing as NASA is going to suspend their support for WorldWind in May (see: NASAWorldWind/WorldWindJava#81 for the full discussion)

We upgraded to JOGL 2.3.2 on our development-branch and I see you made a similar change in your commit:

pcmehlitz/WorldWindJava@3c8322d

However, we missed the pixel scale-factor issue that you list at the bottom (I'm adding that as we speak). We are also looking at getting a jar built that we can publish to the maven central repo.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could help us.

[pcmehlitz]

Hi Wiehann, sorry for the late reply. I have indeed a number of changes, and the most recent ones deal with the demise of the worldwind map servers. I have a working version that is based on public OSM tile servers and the USGS3DEP elevation server (the elevation server does not seem to properly use the local file cache though). Please also note that I already do publish to Maven central by means of build.sbt. I just haven't published in a while since I still have a number of pending WWJ issues to resolve. Please feel free to use whatever changes you see fit - rationale and scope are usually in the commit messages. My WWJ work is strictly in the context of RACE, i.e. I need a globe on which I can display thousands of tracks with up to 1Hz update intervals (hence my concern about heap pressure, for which WWJ is famous). In this context I was also trying to optimize the pick process, which was a major bottleneck with this number of PointPlacemarks. I also did some work regarding extensible (Swing) UI integration, which you can find in race/race-ww. My long term plans with WWJ are not yet clear since I think there is the need for a more fundamental rewrite (shaders, LWJGL/Vulkan). Apparently JOGL is live again, but with Apple's recent deprecation of OpenGL I'm not sure this is the right path. Because of my focus on RACE I might not always be able to respond quickly but let me know if you have questions and I'm happy to help. Thanks, -- Peter

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[wcmatthysen]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the reply. I think we'll have a look at the improvements / changes you made over the years and integrate some of them into our fork. Also, thank you very much for the heads-up on using your changes.

We'll have to keep the OpenGL deprecation in mind.

If there are issues we'll let you know.

Good luck with the work you're doing on RACE.

Cheers