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with respect to their maintainers, but in general I have only seen them cause problems as they will invariably fall out of date.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