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"Google Chrome required" - sure, because current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination.
I'm really impressed by the amount of detail in the 3D views (hold middle mouse button to look around). Even the fair at the field near my house [0] can be viewed in 3D!. Coincidentally they are currently building that same fair today, so for a moment I thought the images were live... [0] https://earth.google.com/web/@52.08511654,4.31805086,0.37952...
How are they building the 3D views? Mapping cars driving around with sensors? I was under the impression that the shapes were inferred from satellite images, but the moment I step outside the major cities, it's back to flat maps. Even the couple hand-modelled buildings previously present in maps seem to be missing here.
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I'll check it out, thanks. We were using Maps in a more adhoc manner when touring Scotland. It was great, now not so much.
For any serious trip abroad I use OSMand (but only on Android) ... you can use hiking routes (GPX), all offline (great if you have no phone signal). Also helped me more than once for parking or finding the next public toilet (haha). You can even using for skiing, biking or navigation on the water. And regarding elevation it seems it is also there inside: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/1795
Personally I use Gaia GPS and Pocket Earth for hiking/nature.
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There was a point where you could choose from which time to view the data. Very useful feature. Might even still be in there somewhere if you find the right chicken to sacrifice to make it appear.
Google sure spends an incredible amount of money making their UIs worse (and usually increasing memory use by a large multiplier at the same time).
Isn't everyone doing this these days? All the UIs on PC software have been getting worse since the mid-2000s.
I never see anyone talking about google's elevation data for buildings and the process they've used to drape imagery over that elevation data. I wonder why that is? Maybe this isn't a hard problem and it's just a question of getting high quality data. Still, I've never seen any other company come close to this. I do wonder what exactly is new here in terms of a casual user browsing the landscape. Google maps 3D offer…
You can wander around in this rendered copy of Earth, today, in VR. And folks are so above it that they still say "eh, no killer app tho" without irony.
"Google Chrome is required to run the new Google Earth. Please try this link in Chrome." Get fucked. Embrace, extend, and extinguish. It's ActiveX all over again. PS: I have a 4 Ghz, quad core, i7-6700K CPU, 64GB RAM, 250Mbps internet and this is both poorly working to the point of being impossible to use, and bringing my computer to a halt.
"Google Chrome required" - sure, because current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination.
> "Google Chrome required" - sure, because current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination. This is the same with the new YouTube TV too. I'm not sure if it's a DRM issue or not. Especially galling if so given the controversy over HTML5 DRM content, after other browsers have decided to support it, to then roll your own solution anyway...
"Google Chrome required" - sure, because current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination.
What's even more annoying about this is it requires specifically Google Chrome, I'm on Chromium on Linux, where you'd think it works, but it doesn't. It doesn't even fail nicely.
"Google Chrome required" - sure, because current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination.
How does that happen? I'm not even 30 and I remember when IE6 was new. Does everyone burn out or move into management by 26 or what?
Programming is really a weird field in that it seems to lose a lot of its workmen just as they start maturing into the experience level that yields a productive stride in other fields.
I know some make the argument that programming is a young man's game due to the required mental acuity, but I don't really buy that. Perhaps as people get older, they become increasingly less interested in staring into the computer and seek more social forms of employment?
We've got to be losing a huge amount of productivity by seeing experienced developers drop off the map before they hit 40.
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For any serious trip abroad I use OSMand (but only on Android) ... you can use hiking routes (GPX), all offline (great if you have no phone signal). Also helped me more than once for parking or finding the next public toilet (haha). You can even using for skiing, biking or navigation on the water. And regarding elevation it seems it is also there inside: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/1795
OSMand has the worst UX I have ever experienced. Hands down. Personally I use Gaia GPS and Pocket Earth for hiking/nature.