WWT KML support

[Alberto Conti]

Thanks Jonathan.
This is really good news for astronomy.

Ciao,
Alberto

On Oct 21, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Jonathan Fay wrote:

> It has been noted in the news recently that the new release of  
> Microsoft Virtual Earth supports a subset of KML, and that  
> Microsoft will be working with the geo community to better support  
> interoperable standards.
>
> The news has resulted in a number of e-mails asking if World Wide  
> Telescope will support KML.
>
> The answer is that WWT will support most of the subset of KML  
> supported by Google Sky, but we plan on having native ways of  
> getting data into WWT that will use formats astronomers are already  
> familiar with.
>
> So while we will support the tools already being developed for KML  
> we will also support native vo interfaces in a richer way than  
> having to map thru KML. More details will follow later.
>
> Still there is a lot of interest in KML right now so I have been  
> trying to track down as many KML based astronomy links as I can to  
> make sure they are all tested in WWT as part our release process.
>
> If you have a KML based service I would love to get a link to it so  
> I can test. While we are coding to the KML 2.2 spec, we are also  
> supporting backward compatible dialects that have been deprecated  
> in 2.2 to ensure compatibility.
>
> Please reply privately with any KML service links.
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan Fay
> Principal Research Software Design Engineer
> World Wide Telescope
> Microsoft Research

Dr Alberto Conti
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