On Friday 22 June 2007 10:57, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On Friday 22 June 2007 08:16, Pueblo Native wrote:
> > Daniel Feiglin wrote:
> > > Has anyone managed to get the current Linux release of
> > > GoogleEarth running under 10.2?
> > > It crashes with a double seg error.
> > > With the export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.10 hack, It claims that it
> > > cannot find various shared libraries, which are most definitely
> > > present.
> >
> > Works fine for me.  When exactly does it crash?
>
> Slightly off topic, but what does Google Earth do that the Google
> maps with Satellite view doesn't?  And where do you get Google Earth
> for Linux?  I just assumed that the d/l you would get would be for
> Windows.

Google earth is a generic, open platform for GIS applications. It's not 
of the same category as the ESRI applications ArcView or ArcGIS, but 
the concept is the same.

Google Earth's display is much more dynamic and responsive, since more 
of the work is done on your workstation (rendering, in particular). It 
provides much more flexible views, including 3-D terrain models and 
viewing angle controls (Google Maps shows only a fixed viewpoint, i.e., 
looking straight down).

Google Maps is fixed / self-contained and not particularly extensible, 
though there is the ability to create simple overlays that makes 
map-based "mash-ups" possible.


Google Earth is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.


> --doug


Randall Schulz
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