Darryl Lyon’s Blogalerts me to a demo of what I consider to be something of a killer feature for virtual globes: “Video on terrain”, depicted rather persuasively with SkylineGlobe in this CNet online video from Where 2.0. Granted, SkylineGlobe isn’t out yet, and there is no way to know how scalable this feature is, but only two months ago, video painted onto 3D surfaces was high-end stuff for a media lab — witness GeoDec (third item from the top — and note who is sponsoring GeoDec; gotta love competition).
I’m not sure if the network links ever did show the V70 sailing race in the North Sea live, but these snapshots on ZNO of the race in progress depict some very nifty sailboat model rendering work by ZNO that you can zoom onto. Mediality has more on the race itself.