Earth3D is a program that visualizes the earth in a realtime 3D view. It uses data fromNASA,USGS, the CIA and the city ofOsnabrück. I would like to thank these organisations to allow me to use their data! The program is available as binary for Linux, MacOS X and Windows under the GPL license. The program's features are

viewing the earth as a whole
zooming in until countries, cities and even single houses become visible (if I had such maps, so this is currently limited to the city of Osnabrück, Germany)
embedding external data like current earthquake positions or cloud data

My name isDominique Andre Gunia.

This package is a result from my work and my diploma thesis in computer science at the Institute of ComputerGraphics atBraunschweig University of Technology.

The support of this work by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant FE 431/4-5 and by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMBF) under grant 01 IRA 02G is gratefully acknowledged.

The program is hostet atSourceforge. The main data server for the earth data is at theInstitute of ComputerGraphics.