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Re: Google Earth Redesigned

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Post by piyush_soni »

archgrove wrote: post #25
4ad wrote: post #15

"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.

Amen: "Aw snap! The new Google Earth isn't supported by your browser yet". No. _You_ didn't support my browser. The web is not "Just Chrome" any more than the web was "Just Internet Explorer". Same game, different player.

Well, to be fair to them, they take fair amount of time but eventually they support multiple browsers. Same was the case with Google Photos editing not supported on Firefox when it was launched. Turned out Firefox had to up their game to support it and now it works in both.

Re: Google Earth Redesigned

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Post by sgift »

andy_ppp wrote: post #62

Embrace and Extend the web with Chrome only apps like this. Google are basically old Microsoft at this point.

> Embrace and Extend the web with Chrome only apps like this.

Depends on the reason for "Chrome only" - if they use (upcoming) standards not supported so far by other browsers I see no harm in it. Other browsers will catch up in time.

Re: Google Earth Redesigned

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Post by Jaruzel »

silversmith wrote: post #61
LeonM wrote: post #54

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.

This is exactly what I want to know. There's several towns in the UK that have all the houses in really good 3D (mostly the coastal towns) - I struggle to believe that there's a team of humans making these...

Re: Google Earth Redesigned

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Post by tgb »

silversmith wrote: post #61
LeonM wrote: post #54

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.

It's done by plane, though I'm not sure what sensors. More than just photography.

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Post by kmfrk »

I think it's a little funny and symptomatic of HN that we can't take a minute to fucking marvel at the fact that we've got something like this in the first place without going over the font or the whatever.

Technology is amazing and moving rapidly, and if we can't take out five minutes to revel in an achievement like this, I don't know what the point is.

Re: Google Earth Redesigned

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Post by highace »

4ad wrote: post #15

"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.

What graphics card? This uses your graphics card.

Re: Google Earth Redesigned

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Post by stefs »

discordianfish wrote: post #6

Doesn't do anything on my ubuntu / chromium system.

    cb=gapi.loaded_0:121 GET https://clients6.google.com/oauth2/v3/userinfo?key=[redacted] 401 ()
    cb=gapi.loaded_0:45 Uncaught [object Object](anonymous function) @ cb=gapi.loaded_0:45
    clients5.google.com/log?authuser=0:1 POST  https://clients5.google.com/log?authuser=0 401 ()
    POST https://clients5.google.com/log?authuser=0 401 ()

Re: Google Earth Redesigned

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Post by heavymark »

neilsimp1 wrote: post #68
andy_ppp wrote: post #62

Embrace and Extend the web with Chrome only apps like this. Google are basically old Microsoft at this point.

I really liked having a separate application to open for Google Earth instead of a browser. I take it this won't be an option any more?

Chrome allows you to turn any website into it's own app, but saving a website such as Google Earth to your bookmarks then drag that to chrome://apps and right click on it and choose Open Full Screen and create short cut. So it will you will be able to open it like an app and find it in spotlight/alfred and you can still use chrome for websites separately.
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