A while back, I made some odd grumbles about Java vs. NET and, in doing some early spring cleaning of code, I realized I didn't really bother to explain.
I'd made a NASA WorldWind placename converter - it read in WorldWind placename files (which were generated by NET) and displayed them as text, as shown here:
Since then, the latest version of WorldWind, 1.4 (which is in beta right now) has switched to using WFS (streaming, from the network) for placename display instead of reading from local files, cutting down on 215 mb of installation size.
A year ago I was stabbing blindly at SWT and will probably update this code since I'm so smrater to JFace and/or an RCP editor, but if anyone wants to see the current code (and JUnit test case!), feel free to let me know.
That's Southhampton, UK's Bellemoor School for Boys where two prankish Year Eleven youths poured
weed killer in the shape of a dongule on their school lawns. Smart chaps killed the grass long enough for satellites to pick it up and propagate it. Cheerio, lads! That'll get you your A levels, indeed.
Microsoft's
Virtual Earth has 2006 imagery which still shows it,
Yahoo! maps with iCubed imagery doesn't get close enough, and Google Earth and
maps has 2007 imagery, where the "dark mark" has been reseeded.
The t-shirt of snake oil's is overshadowed by the description of it:
Web 2.0 Shirt
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