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Registration failed for me with a message suggesting such remedies as trying a different email address. Punched in a gmail address and it worked. Perhaps coincidentally.
Same with me. It failed with that error when I tried with my fastmail email address. Switched to a gmail one and then it worked.
Can we get proper Linux support, please? The current Linux situation with Google Earth is a joke -- 3 years old, crashes, based on wine, no pro features.
Fortunately, the Windows version of Pro works perfectly in wine.
Years ago before I started at my current job some people had Google Earth (free) on their PCs. But then someone read an updated Terms of Use and determined that we actually needed to be using the paid version of Google Earth so many people had their copies removed from their PCs. Then around the time I started someone read an updated Terms of Use and it was determined that there was no problem using the regular versi…
nope. it is mostly because microsoft been offering those high quality aerial images for a long time on bing maps for free, but since nobody even know there is a bing map, it wasn't a threat. now somehow google feel they are gaining market and decided to counter attack.
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Where I live (Stockholm) Google Maps has become completely useless at finding anything. It used to be the case that you could search for the name of a store chain (e.g. Systembolaget - the state alcohol stores) and it would show some of their stores on a map around you, nowadays it picks some random one (never close to where you are) and displays that instead. The same thing has started happening for lots of places t…
Exactly the same thing happens to me here in the midwest United States. If I search, for example, for "fast food", especially on my phone, it tends to shift the entire map to some random city, state, or town (and sometimes country). It seems to have a particular affinity for the state of Alabama and also the western coast of Nigeria.
Good, but it's still missing the one key feature that I really need: offline satellite imagery. I guide off-road driving adventures in the western deserts for groups of friends every year. Trip planning is done primary in Google Maps and USGS topos but I occasionally find myself out in the desert and needing to scout a route for a last-minute change but with no way of doing it without Internet and satellite imagery.…
There's a whole ecosystem of software for building tile databases and viewing them on phones/tablets: http://mobac.sourceforge.net/ There's also a bunch of "WMS Viewers" that you can point at National Map endpoints (which shouldn't have any licensing issues): http://raster.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services I've never had a use for them so I don't know if one works well and has nice caching features.
I've used it create maps for long bicycle trips in SE Europe. A highest-detail map of the balkans is about 1GB. I used Galileo Offline Maps to render it on an iPhone.
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nope. it is mostly because microsoft been offering those high quality aerial images for a long time on bing maps for free, but since nobody even know there is a bing map, it wasn't a threat. now somehow google feel they are gaining market and decided to counter attack.
Uhm google images allow you to see way closer.....
Having just gone through a recent home buying exercise in mid-west I always reverted to bing maps for a "birds eye view" as they had 4 directions of shots from their plane camera while google just had satellite then went into some kind of rendered/extruded view which was kinda eh.
Now if I compare that to our office in SF then google better than bing for zooming in.
Years ago before I started at my current job some people had Google Earth (free) on their PCs. But then someone read an updated Terms of Use and determined that we actually needed to be using the paid version of Google Earth so many people had their copies removed from their PCs. Then around the time I started someone read an updated Terms of Use and it was determined that there was no problem using the regular versi…
> (...) tried some other program. I know in my department we already installed alternative software for most people. I've never heard of Google Earth alternatives. Any recommendations?
It would need lots of work to become a real alternative though.
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nope. it is mostly because microsoft been offering those high quality aerial images for a long time on bing maps for free, but since nobody even know there is a bing map, it wasn't a threat. now somehow google feel they are gaining market and decided to counter attack.
Uhm google images allow you to see way closer.....
Years ago before I started at my current job some people had Google Earth (free) on their PCs. But then someone read an updated Terms of Use and determined that we actually needed to be using the paid version of Google Earth so many people had their copies removed from their PCs. Then around the time I started someone read an updated Terms of Use and it was determined that there was no problem using the regular versi…
> (...) tried some other program. I know in my department we already installed alternative software for most people. I've never heard of Google Earth alternatives. Any recommendations?
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Fortunately, the Windows version of Pro works perfectly in wine.
I tried to download the Windows version to run it under wine and it gave me the Linux bin. I will have to put a bit more effort into it and give it now that someone has confirmed that it works :) Thanks.
https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/earth/qGeaQ3LQYEs/vfG...
