On Monday 11 September 2006 04:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:

although I am *very* disappointed by the quality and actuality of the pictures and don't understand the hype that is (or was) made about it. Never looked at it again, except now to check if it still works...

Quality varies dramatically depending on the pictures available. Look at down town Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, or London. Don't expect that resolution every where. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen

On Mon, September 11, 2006 11:13 am, Per Jessen wrote:

John Andersen wrote:

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On Monday 11 September 2006 04:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:

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although I am *very* disappointed by the quality and actuality of the pictures and don't understand the hype that is (or was) made about it. Never looked at it again, except now

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I have to agree with Daniel - google earth is pretty piss poor. I've also ever only used it once, then ditched it.

I'll probably get flamed for this, but I'd like to put a good word in for the program. Google bought Keyhole Corp, a well-regarded name in GIS mapping, about the same time it bought Picasa. Though more an amusement on ths surface, the beauty of the application comes into play when you load your own GIS data into the system and start cross-populating it with such information as precint boundries for elections, assessor parcel information for property tax valuations, ownership information for demographics and so on. It is there where you see the application really shine. The nice thing about Google Earth is the fact that it integrates well with Arc/GIS and other ERSI software apps using KML (Keyhole Markup Langugage), which is very similar to HTML/XML in style. Here's an example of me taking phone data from a GPS-enabled Nextel phone, overlaying into our Google Earth Server and coming up with a webpage. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/kai_gps_home_zoom.jpg http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/kai_gps_home.jpg What you are seeing are the green points showing the location of the GPS phone integrated into the Keyhole satelite image of my house. The phone was actually sitting on a desk during the sampling, but shows some variation in location due to the wobble of satellites in orbit taking the readings. This is just a small example of what can be done - and done easily - with Google Earth. I was very impressed with Google that they ported it over to Linux, and use it often on my laptops to show what can be done in Linux on SUSE. Fortuntely for us, the Keyhole app was written with the superior Qt toolkit, so it is cross-platform and looks nice. /soapbox -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request

On Mon, September 11, 2006 11:19 am, Daniel Bauer wrote:

Am Montag, 11. September 2006 19:53 schrieb John Andersen:

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On Monday 11 September 2006 04:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:

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although I am *very* disappointed by the quality and actuality of the pictures and don't understand the hype that is (or was) made about it. Never looked at it again, except now to check if it still works...

Quality varies dramatically depending on the pictures available. Look at down town Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, or London. Don't expect that resolution every where.

Yes, you are right of course. Even my little tiny hometown is quite clear, while the pictures of most other places I was looking for are really useless - just a greenish mess (where there it is green in summer).

If just wonder about the great fuss about google earth, while sites like http://map.search.ch/ have much better photo material (except in larger cities) - without the need of downloading any software, with the possibility to find any address and without the big noise of google earth. And I guess this site is just one example...

Well, you could do the same with Google Maps. http://maps.google.com In all honesty, that's what I use for the most part. However, just to be nitpicky, I decided to compare your search site vs. Google Earth for the Migros store I worked at in the early '90s, which is located over near Schaffhausen. Here's your site. You can see the store with the yellow circle. It is at full zoom. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/maps_search_thayngen.jpg Here's google earth, looking at the same building, only with a bit of a 3-d effect induced by the application. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/google_earth_migros.jpg In both instances, the images are 65% quality JPEGs, so you may notice some degridation. I did that only to keep the bandwith issues down. I'd say it is pretty clear that Google Earth has the better picture. Of course, the overriding issue is that both options are available to those of us using Linux. :) -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request

On Sep 11, 06 16:16:04 +0200, Lennart Börjeson wrote:

måndag 11 september 2006 15:27 skrev Matthias Hopf:

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On Sep 11, 06 11:34:36 +0200, Lennart Börjeson wrote:

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My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Quadro NVS 285.

Either a driver bug or a missinstalled NVidia driver. Are you running Xgl?

I have not installed xgl.

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How did you install the NVidia driver?

I used the preferred method according to http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#4; by adding nVidia's repository to YaST and installing "nvidia-gfx-kmp-smp" and "x11-video-nvidia". My currently installed versions are 1.0.8762_2.6.16.21_0.8-1 and 1.0.8762-1 respectively.

Very well. Seems to be ok. In that case please create a bug report, against the 3rd Party X.org component. Thanks Matthias -- Matthias Hopf __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de