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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 books ? Can you tell us what you mean by guide
books
and what motivations you have to re-publish ? Remember that GoogleEarth is a
GIS system, a union of Earth images and geospatial information glued
together by
SQL-like databases.
GoogleEarth Free is a smart GIS system but to appreciate how smarter
than it is already, you need at least
GoogleEarth Plus.
For example, you can plug in your GPS device and follow your
holiday trek around Australia in your PC; or follow your way from home
to SLUG meeting venues
again by plugging in your GPS device. You can even locate the
nearer (not necessarily the nearest due to incomplete entries in
database) parking
space to your SLUG meeting venues.
GoogleEarth has PRO version which is even smarter than the above.
Unfortunately it is rather
lacking in what you can do.
OTOH, neither is the FOSS offerings much chop atm.
You probably mean Free (as in free beer); GoogleEarth is not FOSS.
As I see it GoogleEarth (keyhole) is a family of software products designed
to make profits and at the same time keep the source codes private.
As one previous poster cited if you want Open Source visit:
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
The above is running on Windows and used .NET framework to
develop. I realized this when I installed.
The above software, however, is no where near Enterprise Oriented software
as GoogleEarth is.
It is the need for a
fully blown GIS functionality that is the killer.
What functionality do you envision ? You can buy GoogleEarth License API
packages
to do your specific functionality.
Hope this helps.
Disclaimer: I'll not in any way profit directly or indirectly from
GoogleEarth or from its partners by making the
above statements about the product.
O Plameras
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