Re: [SLUG] Google Earth on Linux ?

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:43:23AM +1000, QuantumG wrote:
 Well, there's no linux version available from their web site, if that's 
 the question. [ .. ]

I presume (without any evidence to back me up :-) that it will come.

Matt
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Re: [SLUG] Google Earth on Linux ?

[Chris Deigan]

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is it possible to run Google Earth on Linux ?

Well, a lot of the data can be got through google maps in sattelite
view.

:-)

-Chris.
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Re: [SLUG] Google Earth on Linux ?

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:28:37PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
 On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:43:23AM +1000, QuantumG wrote:
  Well, there's no linux version available from their web site, if that's 
  the question. [ .. ]
 
 I presume (without any evidence to back me up :-) that it will come.

btw, there is an open source thingy like google earth from NASA.

The catch is that it requires .NET and DirectX :-)

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov

Apparently quite a bit clunkier than google earth.

Matt


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[SLUG] Google Earth on Linux ?

[vicl]

is it possible to run Google Earth on Linux ?

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Re: [SLUG] Google Earth on Linux ?

[QuantumG]

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is it possible to run Google Earth on Linux ?
 



Well, there's no linux version available from their web site, if that's 
the question.


However, looking at the 38 dlls it uses, I really can't tell you why.  
For example, the user interface, is using Qt.  To fetch data from the 
web, they're using libcurl.  To parse xml, they're using libexpat.  They 
support both directx and opengl rendering.  So yeah, gotta wonder, with 
a lot of work you'd expect WINE to be able to run it.  You shouldn't 
even need Cedega thanks to the opengl support.  Seems they could release 
a linux version, maybe you could just ask them nicely? :)


Trent

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