Explorer 0.2.0

Date

12-FEB-2018

Release Summary

The WorldWind Explorer v0.2.0 is a major milestone in the development of the web application framework featuring the NASA Web WorldWind SDK.

Associated GitHub Issues

#3 Markers should use eye distance scaling
#5 Show local time in the Time Widget [by @emxsys]
#6 The Time Controls are placed too high in the globe view [by @emxsys]
#7 The Time Controls slider does not respond to touch input [by @emxsys]
#8 The Add Marker button does not respond to touch input [by @emxsys]
#9 Layer categories should be collapsible in the Layers view
#13 Problems with the north and south poles [by @emxsys]
#15 The Location Widget "aspect" tick mark needs higher contrast [by @emxsys]
#16 Marker altitudes should be relative to earth
#17 Timezone detection [by @emxsys]
#19 Globe drag operations inoperable after upgrade to latest worldwind.js lib [by @emxsys]
#20 Adjustable and collapsible side panel(s) [by @emxsys]
#21 Add Output panel to display ancillary information [by @emxsys]
#22 Add Day/Night/Atmosphere toggle to Settings tab
#23 View controls and screen widgets are clipped in FireFox
#24 Screen layout in Android tablet is too tall [by @emxsys]
#25 Add the D3.js - Data Driven Documents library [by @emxsys]
#26 Add Weather Scouts [by @emxsys]
#27 Add the vis.js browser based visualization library [by @emxsys]
#29 Help System
#30 Improve branding of application [by @emxsys]
#31 Browser freezes when viewing the pole(s) [by @emxsys]
#32 Integrate changes from the WorldWind Server Kit (WWSK) Explorer [by @emxsys]
#33 Feature/layer manager dragging [by @emxsys]
#34 Update WebWorldWind library. [by @emxsys]
#35 Feature/#34 update worldwind [by @emxsys]
#36 Sharable bookmarks button [by @emxsys]
#37 Feature/#36 bookmarks [by @emxsys]
#39 Navigation performance degrades when using tilted view on a large canvas [by @emxsys]
#40 Layer Manager UI improvements [by @emxsys]
#43 Unable scroll layers in Layer Manager on mobile
#44 Unable drop markers on globe using mobile device [by @emxsys]
#45 Header tab buttons should toggle their respective views [by @emxsys]
#46 Unable to easily reset view to north-up and nadir
#47 Day/Night not operational after update [by @emxsys]
#49 Hide splitter bars when panels are collapsed
#54 Add user selectable background options [by @emxsys]
#55 Show layer's legend in the Layer dialog
#56 Layout not right in Microsoft Edge / Internet Explorer [by @emxsys]
#57 Mobile UI improvements [by @emxsys]
#61 Add time series controls to layer settings dialog [by @emxsys]
#63 Display the "current time" of a time series layer in the layer list
#68 Refactor Views and View Models [by @emxsys]
#69 Refactor views and view models [by @emxsys]
#70 Add a star field background open [by @emxsys]
#71 Add transparency to the atmosphere's nighttime image [by @emxsys]
#72 LayerProxy [by @emxsys]
#73 Weather Scout text should use eye distance scaling [by @emxsys]
#76 Show layer controls in an auto-expanding panel under the selected layer
#78 Reset 2D map to north up when switching projections [by @emxsys]
#79 Set Apache Expires and Cache-Control HTTP headers [by @emxsys]
#83 Dragging markers not working in Safari [by @emxsys]
#84 Globe dissappears during browser resize. [by @emxsys]
#85 Header layout is wrong in Microsoft Edge [by @emxsys]
#86 Improve startup performance and user experience [by @emxsys]

Known issues

Impacts to other development teams/compatibility

• Major refactoring of Explorer, views and view models.
• The Explorer object assembles the views and view models.
• Views are now HTML fragment files that loaded by RequireJS
• View models take an assigned view and attach it to the DOM and apply the Knockout bindings.

Versions

Component	Version	Previous
Bootstrap	3.3.7
d3	4.13.0
RequireJS	2.3.5
Knockout	3.4.2
JQuery	2.2.4
JQuery UI	1.12.1
MomentJS	2.20.1
VisJS	4.21.0
NASA WebWorldWind	0.9.0	0.1.0

End User impact/User facing changes

• Settings
• Sortable layers
• Collapsible splitter windows
• Bookmarks

Documentation

See the User Guide at http://worldwind.earth.

Notes

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