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Re: is google earth safe to install?

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Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 September 2015 01:41:20 rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
>
>> To facilitate our search for property and discussion over the
>> telephone of various properties, my client wishes me to install google
>> earth.[SNIP]
> No clue about safety, but its unsupported and doesn't work at all well
> with the nouveau drivers. Essentially it should be considered
> deprecated.
>
> There is a newer format, used by the weather maps on most local tv
> station web sites. Preset to show about 1/4 of WV on my old stations
> site, but put your mouse on it, and roll the wheel and the scale can be
> reduced to planet sized, then grabbed at the mouse pointer location and
> drag it to turn the planet until your area of interest is centered, put
> the mouse there and zoom back in.  All of this in very close to real
> time, easily 100x faster than GE has ever run on one of my machines.
>
> Works with iceweazel and chromium, no GE install needed.  Just a recent
> browser.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>

Sounds interesting. What is it? Where do I find it?
TIA

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is google earth safe to install? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-01 07:50 +0200
  Re: is google earth safe to install? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-01 10:40 +0200
    Re: is google earth safe to install? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2015-09-01 16:50 +0200
      Re: is google earth safe to install? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-01 20:20 +0200
        Re: is google earth safe to install? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-09-01 20:50 +0200
        Re: is google earth safe to install? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-09-01 21:50 +0200
          Re: is google earth safe to install? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-09-01 22:00 +0200
            Re: is google earth safe to install? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 01:00 +0200
              Re: is google earth safe to install? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-02 01:30 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Gary Roach <garyroach@verizon.net> - 2015-09-02 03:10 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-09-02 10:00 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 15:40 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-09-02 11:10 +0200
              Re: is google earth safe to install? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.yi.org> - 2015-09-03 23:10 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-09-03 23:40 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 08:50 +0200
  Re: is google earth safe to install? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-09-01 10:50 +0200
    Re: is google earth safe to install? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-09-01 15:10 +0200
      Re: is google earth safe to install? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-09-01 16:50 +0200

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