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NASA World Wind for Pocket PC

Recently, a UCSB graduate student said she dreamed of having Google

Earth or NASA World Wind work on her PDA. "You know", I said, "I think

I remember that from an old blog entry--for World Wind". I did a quick

search and found it. From his May 13, 2005, blog entry (updated

January 10, 2006), Casey Chestnut traces his experiments toward a

Compact Framework version of NASA World Wind. The entry includes the

resulting, successful source code. The commentary also links to a

February 2005 .NET Rocks! podcast featuring NASA World Wind developers

Chris Maxwell and Randy Kim.

screenshot by Casey Chestnut

Chestnut modified the NASA World Wind code as an experiment with

portable device coding. In a November 28, 2005, post, he lists and

rebuts several reasons Microsoft has disallowed similar

experimentation with Xbox 360. According to Chestnut's post, Microsoft

claims Xbox 360 is "not designed for it..", it would interfere with

"console stability", and it does not directly support "DirectX".

Chestnut's website resume states that he was recently hired by

Microsoft. Maybe from the inside, he'll overcome the official