Hello SuSE people, A challenge for out programmers/codewriters. There is a really neat program from Google that allows sattelite zooming from space down to a specific location on Earth. You have to download it and install it to make it work. Supposedly it is a generic Windows/Mac program. Here is some info: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://earth.google.com/index.html Go to Google Earth Home A 3D interface to the planet Google Earth Home Downloads http://earth.google.com/downloads.html Products http://earth.google.com/products.html Industries http://earth.google.com/industries.html Support http://earth.google.com/support http://earth.google.com/images/dot2.gif Google Earth -Explore, Search and Discover Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where would someone post to have some guru develop this for Linux? I have already chastised Google for not offering a Linux version. Bob S.
On Monday 03 April 2006 00:00, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
A challenge for out programmers/codewriters.
There is a really neat program from Google that allows sattelite zooming from space down to a specific location on Earth.
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Where would someone post to have some guru develop this for Linux? I have already chastised Google for not offering a Linux version.
Bob S.
There's something that works in Linux just fine, but beware, a fast connection will make it much nicer to have and use. http://ww2d.csoft.net/index.php?title=Download
On 03/04/06, Bob S
Hello SuSE people,
A challenge for out programmers/codewriters.
There is a really neat program from Google that allows sattelite zooming from space down to a specific location on Earth. You have to download it and install it to make it work. Supposedly it is a generic Windows/Mac program. Here is some info: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://earth.google.com/index.html Go to Google Earth Home A 3D interface to the planet
Google Earth Home Downloads http://earth.google.com/downloads.html Products http://earth.google.com/products.html Industries http://earth.google.com/industries.html Support http://earth.google.com/support
http://earth.google.com/images/dot2.gif Google Earth -Explore, Search and Discover
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Where would someone post to have some guru develop this for Linux? I have already chastised Google for not offering a Linux version.
Bob S.
Google are working on a Linux port. I don't know when it will be available but it will be soon. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Xmas may be over but, PLEASE DON'T drink and drive you'll make it to the next one that way. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
On Sunday 02 April 2006 10:00 pm, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
A challenge for out programmers/codewriters.
There is a really neat program from Google that allows sattelite zooming from space down to a specific location on Earth. You have to download it and install it to make it work. Supposedly it is a generic Windows/Mac program. Here is some info:
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Where would someone post to have some guru develop this for Linux? I have already chastised Google for not offering a Linux version.
Sux, eh? AFAIK, Google Earth is written using the Qt toolset, so porting to linux should be a no-brainer. Sigh... There is a "version" for *nix which does some cool stuff - Fusion. http://earth.google.com/earth_fusion.html At the County where I work (for the next five days), we have Google Earth. The funny thing is that all our local data for Google Earth is stored on SLES servers, which is then accessed by our Wintendo clients. Here's a screenshot of a cool test we did. We overlayed some GPS data from a cell phone onto our Fusion server and correlated it to the mapping data. Then took a satellite photo and zoomed in. You can see the GPS points of the cell phone (Motorola/Nextel) overlayed on my house. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/kai_gps_home.jpg Here's a zoom - http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/kai_gps_home_zoom.jpg Oddly enough, the phone was stationary on my desk. You can see how either the Earth or the satellite(s) tracking the phone were off just enough to make the GPS data points scatter a bit. We have a very cool application running on Fusion - through MS Sharepoint - that is accessible from any browser. It allows you to scroll over the entire county and select data on any parcel in the county by right-clicking on a green circle at the center of each parcel. The services are run by one our Google Fusion servers on SLES, the parcel data is from our IMS-based assessor system and the page is ASPX, hosted by IIS. Unfortunately this app is intranet-only at the moment, but is being planned for a deployment in the near future to the world. We'll see what kind of trouble I can get into at my new job starting next Monday. :) -- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community 43...for those who require slightly more than the answer to life, the universe and everything.
I think I've figured out why Novel aren't selling many copies of SEL; they don't advertise any numbers on their website so you have to ring reception, the phone system puts you through to the wrong department and the numbers they then give you don't work. There's a ring back feature where you type in all your details and then nothing. Not very good at all if you ask me, Red Hat are infinitly more helpful with sales enquiries. Matthew
On 4/3/06, Matthew Stringer wrote:
I think I've figured out why Novel aren't selling many copies of SEL; they > don't advertise any numbers on their website so you have to ring reception, the phone system puts you through to the wrong department and the numbers they then give you don't work.
Novell is a little too Mountian Standard Timezone for me, there probably working when most of us are in Bed
There's a ring back feature where you type in all your details and then
Novell occassionally do 'invade' resellers in the UK with human employees for the day but I think unless your a fortune 100 Novell could not care less about you or buy support from them. Never used the 'competition' - liked Debian though
Strange... for some reason I don't seem to find any of these problems. Almost half the messages on the list seem to complain about SUSE or something about people working for them. Why is it then that I never seem to have these problems? It's not like I've never talked to the people at support, and it even states the support is for installation only unless you buy the enterprise stuff. I don't buy enterprise as I can't afford it, yet they went out of their way to answer my questions which had nothing to do with the installation. And when others have done this they still tried to help even though it had nothing to do with the install... Talk about complaining damn.
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