NASA World Wind image server

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NASA World Wind obtains its images on the fly from various image servers. These image servers are available to the world to use for other uses as well. The images should all be in the public domain, but someone needs to check this. For a bit of an introduction, there is a discussion at http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/archive/index.php?t-4999.html.

Tiles

These "tiles" can be downloaded using the World Wind Map Tile System. A temporary PHP script was set up at mcfly.com to convert latitude and longitude to appropriate tile requests. See for example http://www.mcfly.org/coord/27.975472/-82.53325, which lists tiles for the Tampa International Airport at (27.975472, -87.53325).

NLT Landsat7 (Visible Color)	2.25	5	http://worldwind25.arc.nasa.gov/tile/tile.aspx	105	[1]	[2]
NLT Landsat7 (Pseudo Color)	2.25	5	http://worldwind25.arc.nasa.gov/tile/tile.aspx	nlt_pseudo	[3]	[4]
Geocover 2000	2.25	6	http://worldwind25.arc.nasa.gov/tile/tile.aspx	geocover2000	[5]	[6]
Geocover 1990	2.25	6	http://worldwind28.arc.nasa.gov/TestWebApp/WebForm1.aspx	es_1990jpg	[7]	[8]
USGS Digital Ortho	0.8	8	http://worldwind25.arc.nasa.gov/tile/tile.aspx	101	[9]	[10]
USGS Topo Maps	0.8	7	http://worldwind25.arc.nasa.gov/tile/tile.aspx	102	[11]	[12]
USGS Urban Area Ortho	0.8	10	http://worldwind25.arc.nasa.gov/tile/tile.aspx	104	[13]	[14]
Blue Marble Next Generation	18	5	http://worldwind25.arc.nasa.gov/tile/tile.aspx	bmng.topo.bathy.200401	[15]	[16]

To download this information you need to use WMS.

Mirrors have been set up to divert some of the load from the NASA servers. See http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Mirrors for the current list of mirrors.

Some mirrors are designated "Type A Servers". These servers must be able to host at minium:

In order to be considered a Type A Server, there are also the following requirements:

Also preferred are the following: