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Google Earth for Puppy?

#1 Post by edoc »

Anyone looked into porting Google Earth over to Linux for Puppy?

http://kh.google.com/download/earth/index.html

I have seen satellite images that go from planet to continent to nation to state to county to town to neighborhood to house to table-in-house to bread-on-table to fly-on-bread ... but I cannot tell you where I saw it! ;-)

That said these images are fascinating and I sure resent being forced to run M$ to view them ... ;-(

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#2 Post by Lobster »

What does the above usefully have compared to this?
http://maps.google.com/

talking of maps:

http://www.feedmap.net/BlogMap/

http://www.vlogmap.org/
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#3 Post by edoc »

Lobster wrote:What does the above usefully have compared to this?
http://maps.google.com/
Nothing apparent so far, it may just be like adding a Google Search toolbar.
Require RSS or ATOM feed (haven't set that up yet) and to accurately locate requires M$ Explorer.
No video feed yet.

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Google Earth has satellite images. You can zoom in to amazing detail. I could easily tell the difference between trucks and cars on a remote highway in New Mexico.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure Google Earth is a binary which only runs in Windows.
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#5 Post by peppyy »

That is all my son can talk about lately. I took him to the MS Terra Server and he said it was ok but nothing like Google Earth. I said Oh Well. They are working on a Mac version but no mention of X.

Might have to try it out at the library but it is not on my priority list ;)
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#6 Post by Pizzasgood »

I'd try it on my Windows setup, but my system is a good ways below the required, so I figured I'd just wait 'till I get my laptop. So for now I'll just be satisfied with the map. It's even better than if mapquest and globexplorer combined.
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#7 Post by peppyy »

There is a ton of fairly high resouloution arial and sattelite out there, some of it is all fancy and drag-n-drop and some of it is older but it is all good stuff. I Just noticed that my buddy Dean put an addition on his house. I never would have known from out front lol. I had a screenshot of 4 firefox windows with a variety of satellite and ariel photos of the same location in different years, black and white high contrast and color but I didn't think it was worth the webspace.

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