Re: is google earth safe to install?

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 09/01/2015 03:53 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:47:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 September 2015 14:09:39 rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, September 1, 2015 9:47 am, Darac Marjal wrote:
> > > > In that case, consider "marble", which provides a similar "virtual
> > > > globe" and is LGPL 2.1+ licensed.
>
> [...]
>
> > > For example, looking at London, I see nothing but pixels in shades of
> > > green and tan.
> > >
> > > RLH
> >
> > Gaggh, you are right, I just installed it. Minimum viewing altitude is
> > 50km!  Nothing but smeared green large pixels where London is marked. Of
> > what use is this in the real world?  [...]
>
> Well, freely available data versus expensively paid for by Google (and paid
> back to them with your and my privacy :-)
>
> Perhaps we should team up and buy some better satellite data to "free" it?
> Kickstarter anyone?

I'm building "Grit". I'll let everyone know how well it works. You do 
need an nVidia graphic card though. Ric



--
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
http://linuxcounter.net/user/44256.html