Add-ons/Plugins for Worldwind

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Hi

I'm not sure if any of these are helpful bt somewhere i saw something like a linuxy version of google earth. Of course google-earth is an option but i'm not sure why you're not already using it. Anyway here's a few things i found in Synaptic Package Manager use the "Search" button to look for "maps" that might (or might not) be worth looking into - i got as far as "m" before giving up and i left out all the gps ones

drawmap, earth3d, fgfs-atlas (game or seriously real??), gosmore, grass and/or josm (http://www.openstreetmap.org/ )

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Thanks for the input Tom. Drawmap looks interesting and I'm going to check it out later. I have both the Linux versions of Googleearth and Nasa's Worldwind installed. Unfortunately in Linux, Worldwind doesn't include the USGS topographic map layer that the Windows version does include. Googleearth doesn't have it in either. Openstreetmap is cool for what it is, but doesn't include elevation change, forest service roads, or back country trails like a good old hard copy topo map or the layer in the Windows version of Worldwind does. I suppose I could install Wine and run that version, but I'm trying to stay away from the Microsoft Giant and his minions as much as possible. Besides, as a recovering alcoholic, Wine isn't a good idea in any form. What I'm really looking for is a Linux compatible plugin for the Linux version of Worldwind that gives me the USGS topographic layer.

Richard

Thanks again Tom. I see from the first two of your links that I can request someone develop a Linux version of the USGS topographic map layer which is included in the default install of the Windows version of Nasa's World Wind. I got bold (or foolish) yesterday and installed Wine so I could run the Windows version of WW, but then it started telling me I had to install .net framework 2.0, direct x, compuda yada, yada, etc... Sufficient to say, I uninstalled Wine and will live without the afore mentioned layer. I appreciate very much your input on my dilemma, I still find myself amazed by the helpfulness in general and the Willingness to help particularly available from the Ubuntu community.

Oops,

Have a good day,

Richard

Lol, you are welcome :)
The Wine project needs a lot of help. Even a fairly negative report about your experience including any of the standard tricks you did try and which version of Wine you tried could help them a lot
http://appdb.winehq.org/
http://forum.winehq.org/

Note that the last stable version, the one that is in the standard Ubuntu repositories (version 1.1.0 or something) is really qwuite desperately old now and most people try again with the latest development release. It does suffer a lot with regressions so if you tried the latest 1.1.28 (or something) then it might be worth trying a previous version. The linux world uses Mono as a drop-in replacement for ".Net". Almost everything developed for .Net will work in Mono but Mono does have extra features. Anyway you should find Mono in Synaptic somewhere but again it's something i avoid as it's too close to becoming dependant on Windows. Microsoft have promised they wont suddenly take people to court for using apps developed in Mono nor for using .Net stuff in Mono but previous experience of their promises urges caution.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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