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Fortunately, the Windows version of Pro works perfectly in wine.
Great to know, thanks. Was there anything fancy needed to get it running or did it just run?
Nothing fancy. Wine 1.7, glsl, gdi & fbo.
Google Earth Pro is now free
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Google Earth cost on the order of 10s of millions of dollars to write, with a couple of the key companies, keyhole and Where2, being acquired for approx. $40mm. [1] . Google Earth Pro is a small, but very useful addition to the base Google Earth - I know a lot of network designers who get by just fine with Google Earth, and have never availed themselves of Google Earth Pro. The real cost, of course, is maintaining an…
Google Earth has never been a serious competitor for GIS. If they had added more features 5 years ago it may have gained traction. It is great for viewing and creating small datasets. Viewing larger datasets required a surprising amount of effort in terms of tiling and converting. The tools built into Google Earth were never very good and people were pointed at server products. This was completely at odds with the si…
Which is sad because ESRI desperately needs some competition. It always feels about 10 years out of date.
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#63Good, 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.…
> still missing the one key feature that I really need: offline
In general, Google has disdain for the very concept of "offline", so I suspect this feature never happens.
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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.
Yeah, it won't give you windows version unless you change user-agent. Here's list of all possible downloads: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/earth/qGeaQ3LQYEs/vfG...
Thanks! I figured changing the UA would do the trick, but that link is even better :)
It works beautifully.
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#66Anybody knows a good alternative to this that runs without trouble on Ubuntu and Arch 64 bit Linux machines? Nothing in AUR and I do not feel like hunting for PPA right now.
Meanwhile it would be great if Google could provide a repository with a linux version that runs flawlessly.
Thanks!
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#67How worried should I be that Google will discontinue Google Earth? It hasn't been updated in a long time, Google prefers web apps, and now this. I prefer native apps, and Google maps can't do everything Earth can do.
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#68I notice the link "grab a free key" leads to a URL ending with free_ trial .html, and that page is a form that asks for plenty of information. The lack of any justification for why something that used to be $399 is now free also feels a bit odd to me... like it's somehow implying that giving Google your name, company, phone number, and other information is, to them, worth more than $399?
no. what if you were making a product free that you no longer wanted to support? remember: paying users expect support a. make free without knowing who is using your project b. make free with knowing who is using your project
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#69Years 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?
We're using ArcGIS Explorer (free)which has tons of issues itself but fills the need for a lot of people, or a full version of ArcGIS ($$$).
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#70Good, 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.
Interesting but it looks like the one iOS client for Mobac is geared towards vector maps, not the satellite imagery.