Terrestrial Globe [Flash 3D Earth Viewer Application]
This is a quite simple three dimensional virtual terrestial globe viewer web-application made with Adobe® Flash®. You can absolutely freely and comfortably rotate 3D earth model by easy mouse operation.
*This application is provided on an "as is" basis with absolutely no warranty.
*The application requires the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.
*Adobe and Flash are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.
Instructions
Click on the title and start the application. (1)Rotation: Mouse-drag some point on the earth to rotate the sphere toward the way in direction. (2)Zooming in and out: Move the handle of slider control on the right to change altitude. Altitude can be changed also by mouse wheeling if your system has a mouse wheel.
Some information, such as current altitude (of view-point), longitude and latitutde (of surface point under mouse cursor), is displayed on top-right corner.
Options
You can alter some options by clicking on the switch buttons on bottom right corner of the window. (1)Show latitude/longitude lines; Lines of every 15 degrees are overlaid when you turned on this. And (2) lock the earth's axis; When locked, rotations only along with the equator are possible. Otherwise unlocked, the globe can be rotated in arbitrary directions.
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