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From: Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no more googleearth in portage
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:15:40
Message-Id: a2a0ed09-8755-42b3-3436-931ff26b6c70@st.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] no more googleearth in portage by "Urs Schütz"
1 Urs Schütz wrote:
2 > On 09/20/17 07:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
3 >> I suppose it's due to Google's choice to support only Chrome, although I missed the Gentoo
4 >> news bit if there was one.
5 >>
6 >> For Android there is the really good Open Street Map application, are there any desktop
7 >> alternatives in Portage for non-Chrome users? I know OSM has a web interface but I'd
8 >> prefer a standalone application.
9 >>
10 >
11 > Maybe  sci-geosciences/viking ?
12 > Try to change the map from MapQuest to MapNik to get a first impression.
13 >
14
15 Thanks to all for replies, I think I'll start with viking, qgis looks more complicated for
16 a beginner. But as always (mapquest vs mapnik? why there are two? why should choose?)
17 when you scrape the surface complexity immediately emerges so it will take some time and
18 study.
19
20 raffaele

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