hello all
impressive work on VE4!
from this article:
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/42541-1.html
Can you describe what GIS standards are supported Is it just GeoRSS I've looked through the entire API, the WinForms Ghost example code and the GlobeControl assemblies themselves and I couldn't find any WMS/WFS etc. support. Is this coming in the future maybe How about KML
I love the API and the fact that you can get under the hood using standard DX coding and that there's a PlugIn framework available. How do you see this working in the real world PlugIns are loaded on the fly from web sites kinda like ClickOnce deployment
cheers
brian flood
http://www.spatialdatalogic.com/cs/blogs/brian_flood
"Virtual Earth supports open GIS standards"
StevenGreen
Currently GeoRSS is supported. In 3D, the tile overlay will support WMS queries, but this is not publicly exposed yet. Other formats are being worked on (can't comment yet).
The 3D control has a pluggable datasource model, so we're not tied to any one format. You will be able to write your own plug-in adapter to feed data from whatever format you like. One of the advantages of managed code is that plug-in's can be loaded on the fly and execute in partial trust sandbox enviornment. Such plug-in's probably would not be able to have direct graphics access, but could provide data.
ChrisCH
cool stuff duncan
so, an auto-deployed plugin could then gather data however it wants and then place this data into a VE specific geometry format ( ) so that the low-level rendering code could display it that would be slick, otherwise you would need to work with all the low-level vertex buffers (and everything that comes with that in terms of performance)
excellent to hear about plugable data formats!
cheers
brian
gauls