Web-based Program Offers 3-D View Of The Earth

"EarthViewer 3D, from Keyhole, lets users navigate through aerial photographs wrapped around a 3-D representation of the globe. As a user dives toward Earth, the program redraws to the screen at a video-gamelike 60 frames per second. Up to now, the primary users of EarthViewer 3D have been real estate agents and city planners who paid yearly subscriptions of $1,200. But starting next month, a deal between Keyhole and Nvidia, the maker of specialty computer chips, will bring the software to consumers."

Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism