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Open Source Alternative To Google Earth?

Posted by timothy on from the you-are-where dept.

aws910 writes "Today, I fired up Google Earth to find that the 'points of interest' category had been removed, and a single checkbox is in its place. Certain layers are now entirely inaccessible. Google triggered a user revolt, but admitted fault, and promised to restore full functionality someday. In the meantime, I've found a lack of plausible alternatives. Bing seems nice, but Moonlight crashes the browser on any machine I use, and I'd rather use OSS anyway ... which made me realize there doesn't seem to be a good open-source alternative to Google Earth. Am I missing something?"

3 of 190 comments (clear)

  1. Maybe they could make the application more native by kriston · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe they could make the application more native instead of using the botchy, almost-correct-but-not-quite Qt widget library.

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    Kriston

  2. Odd .... by Jerry · · Score: 1, Troll

    An indirect attack on Google by suggestions that there is no OSS alternative to GoogleEarth, so that a "Bad Thing"(tm).

    Yet, most of the first posts appear to be by MS Technical Evangelists whose citations for an alternative lead to an .NET version which has been poorly implemented in Java.

    Ya, like I want to trade GoogleEarth for something from the Dark Side?

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    Running with Linux for over 20 years!

  3. NASA's World Wind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, if you want open source, then the java edition is best. If you want technical advantages under the hood, then the java edition is best in that cut too.