General Question World Studio links all broken?

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Was just working in the Orulex world studio right now, and I was wondering: I know a lot of the links that Artlav included for downloading higher resolution textures & heightmaps are broken, but are all of them broken? It would be nice to see if I can get anything from it.

 

[Artlav]

Back when World Studio was made, Google Earth was still Keyhole, and independent and obscure thing.
While NASA provided all kinds of maps in WorldWind service, essentially what Google Earth replaced.

Right now, Google Earth/Google maps is king, and WorldWind is dead (last updated in 2004), so there go the links.

To adapt it to Google Earth would:
A. Require the World Studio sources, which are long lost.
B. Require to violate Google license, AFAIK.

So, consider the thing gone forever and ever.

 

[4throck]

Worldwind is not dead: http://goworldwind.org/demos/

If I'm not mistaken in Worldstudio there's a config file for tile servers.
And Nasa still has all the data available online. But the access queries for the new servers are slightly different, though.