Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread jam
On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Any alternative in OpenSource for GoogleEarth ? > > Tried running in Fedora wine, but keeps on locking up. > Much trying, no sucess (even with win4lin etc, fancy graphics requirements) Why wont they do as googlemars? http://www.go

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread O Plameras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Any alternative in OpenSource for GoogleEarth ? Tried running in Fedora wine, but keeps on locking up. Much trying, no sucess (even with win4lin etc, fancy graphics requirements) Why wont they do as

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Hal
O Plameras wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Any alternative in OpenSource for GoogleEarth ? >>> >>> Tried running in Fedora wine, but keeps on locking up. >>> >>> >> Much trying, no sucess (even with win4lin etc,

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread O Plameras
Hal wrote: O Plameras wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Any alternative in OpenSource for GoogleEarth ? Tried running in Fedora wine, but keeps on locking up. Much trying, no sucess (even with win4lin

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
does cedega give you better results than wine? Dean On Thu, June 1, 2006 9:44 pm, O Plameras wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Any alternative in OpenSource for GoogleEarth ? >>> >>> Tried running in Fedora wine, but k

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Keith Hopkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Any alternative in OpenSource for GoogleEarth ? Tried running in Fedora wine, but keeps on locking up. Much trying, no sucess (even with win4lin etc, fancy graphics requirements) Why

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread James Purser
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:44 +1000, O Plameras wrote: > A number of Linux users I know are switching to Windows because they > want to run GoogleEarth. I can understand why they do. My son works > for a Company that use GoogleEarth for work and had to switch to > Windows. > > O Plameras Just out

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread O Plameras
James Purser wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:44 +1000, O Plameras wrote: A number of Linux users I know are switching to Windows because they want to run GoogleEarth. I can understand why they do. My son works for a Company that use GoogleEarth for work and had to switch to Windows. O Plame

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Crossfire
James Purser was once rumoured to have said: > Just out of curiosity, have they considered running Windows under either > VMWare's free server offering or QEMU? That way they can keep all their > linuxy goodness and run the Windows based stuffs they need. The main reason why VMWare, etc, are unsui

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread James Purser
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 10:28 +1000, Crossfire wrote: > The main reason why VMWare, etc, are unsuitable, especially when > GoogleEarth and things like it are involved, is performance. Google > earth eats graphics cards for lunch. VMWare and most other vm hosting > and emulated/dynamic recompilation

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Lake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much trying, no sucess (even with win4lin etc, fancy graphics requirements) Why wont they do as googlemars? http://www.google.com/mars/ James If you go to http://www.google.com/mars/about.html you will find out about where this data comes from: - Mars Orbiter Camer

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
'expect' might help you script it if you cant get at source and need to bolt some cgi ontop of the curses Dean On Fri, June 2, 2006 12:58 pm, Michael Lake wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Much trying, no sucess (even with win4lin etc, fancy graphics >> requirements) >> Why wont they do as go

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Lake
Dean Hamstead wrote: 'expect' might help you script it if you cant get at source and need to bolt some cgi ontop of the curses Actually it looks like a curses app but it's actually a "Transportable Applications Environment" app which is a thing developed by NASA in the 1980's. But it looks th

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread O Plameras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Any alternative in OpenSource for GoogleEarth ? Tried running in Fedora wine, but keeps on locking up. Much trying, no sucess (even with win4lin etc, fancy graphics requirements) Why wont they do as

RE: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Roger Barnes
TECTED] > Sent: Friday, 2 June 2006 10:42 AM > To: Crossfire > Cc: slug@slug.org.au > Subject: Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource > > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 10:28 +1000, Crossfire wrote: > > The main reason why VMWare, etc, are unsuitable, especially when > >

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
O Plameras wrote: > A number of Linux users I know are switching to Windows because they > want to run GoogleEarth. I can understand why they do. My son works > for a Company that use GoogleEarth for work and had to switch to > Windows. Can you tell us what they were actually doing? I assume thi

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:18:03PM +1000, Roger Barnes wrote: > I understand Google are working on a winelib based GoogleEarth > for Linux, following on from their recent release of Picasa > in the same vein. > > http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/05/google_earth_fo_4.html That blog h

RE: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Roger Barnes
> http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/05/google_earth_fo_4.html > > That blog has a comment that suggests they're not using winelib: > > "...DiBona answered in the negative, explaining that Google > Earth relied on Qt and GL libraries and code, so additional > WINE supp

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > "...DiBona answered in the negative, explaining that Google Earth relied > > on Qt and GL libraries and code, so additional WINE support would not > > help." > > I took that to mean that they might "port" it using wine, but without > doing additional work on wine itself? No, it means that W

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-02 Thread O Plameras
SLUG feeding spam to the world wrote: O Plameras wrote: A number of Linux users I know are switching to Windows because they want to run GoogleEarth. I can understand why they do. My son works for a Company that use GoogleEarth for work and had to switch to Windows. Can you tell us w

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-02 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
O Plameras wrote: Okay. > But if you want to know additional info about GoogleEarth, check this page: I've been playing with it on the other boxen with the idea of doing away with some guide books that need republishing. Unfortunately it is rather lacking in what you can do. OTOH, neither is th

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-02 Thread O Plameras
SLUG feeding spam to the world wrote: O Plameras wrote: Okay. But if you want to know additional info about GoogleEarth, check this page: I've been playing with it on the other boxen with the idea of doing away with some guide books that need republishing. Do you mean travel guide b

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-04 Thread O Plameras
Dean Hamstead wrote: does cedega give you better results than wine? Have not tried cedega yet. Would love too, when time permits. For the moment, GoogleEarth is just running happily on my Win XP. Thanks. O Plameras -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Su

GIS, Cartography & Online Guides, Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-02 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
O Plameras wrote: Warning, this gets long, but I think it is a good idea to throw it out there as someone may have some ideas. Borderling OT, but it is comparing FOSS with so okay.. >> I've been playing with it on the other boxen with the idea of doing away >> with some guide books that nee

Re: GIS, Cartography & Online Guides, Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-04 Thread Michael Lake
Hi all SLUG feeding spam to the world wrote: My main recreational interest is bicycles and my motivation is the more 2) The quality of the GE background is crap and makes digitising exceedingly difficult. It isn't feasible to re-ride all the routes (hey, I'm open to funding offers though

Re: GIS, Cartography & Online Guides, Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-04 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Michael Lake wrote: >> So, the current problem is finding FOSS or affordable software to do >> this good gis work. I have recently been through FOSS offerings, many >> and scattered functionality and it looks like a write your own situation. > > > Look at GRASS. It's a FOSS GIS. > http://www.geo