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On Wednesday, September 20, 2017, Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@××.com> |
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> I suppose it's due to Google's choice to support only Chrome, although I |
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missed the Gentoo |
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> news bit if there was one. |
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I'm not sure that is right, see here: https://www.google.com/earth/ |
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download/gep/agree.html. |
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It looks like it is still "supported," but development may have slowed. |
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> For Android there is the really good Open Street Map application, are |
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there any desktop |
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> alternatives in Portage for non-Chrome users? I know OSM has a web |
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interface but I'd |
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> prefer a standalone application. |
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Take a look at QGIS.[1] There is also NASA's WorldWind.[2] GIS is the |
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keyword you should be using. It looks like the competitive non-Google Earth |
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software projects are mainly targeted at developers. However, it most |
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places I see that still talk about Google Earth tend to use it in a |
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"developer" role (typically importing GIS data, not software development). |
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The best forum topic I could find[3] states (as does the previously |
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referenced bug) Google Earth was removed to sporadic crashes. This may not |
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have been fixed. Regardless, I would invite you to not be afraid of |
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installing packages into your $HOME, e.g. $HOME/.local or another non-root |
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location. This is typically the first step before creating an ebuild. |
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Some users seem to install Google Earth with overlays. Overlays should be |
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evaluated with respect to their maintainers, but in general I have only |
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seen them cause problems as they will invariably fall out of date. For |
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sufficiently popular software packages this might not be an issue. |
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Cheers, |
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R0b0t1 |
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[1]: http://www.qgis.org/en/site/ |
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[2]: https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ |
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[3]: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-980876.html) |
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P.S.: If you can find the time, please tell whomever is responsible that |
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the STM32 HAL libraries look like they were designed by poorly supervised |
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interns. |
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