[OT] Google Earth

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:21:04AM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> I have been wondering what other people think of Google's recent desktop 
> application, called "Google Earth" (only runs on Macs and Windoze). The free 
> service is like Google Maps, except that it is more interactive, and it allows 
> you to freely make contributions and comments on your favourite places, and share 
> them with others in appropriate places on the map. 

Also runs on wine.  I remember seeing a small howto on how to install it
since it does involve a couple of weird wine settings.

> I followed someone's "tour" of the baseball diamonds of the American and National 
> Leagues done in the order of a "Travelling salesman" algorithm --- a kind of "all-
> pairs-shortest-paths" problem.
> 
> I notice that this somewhat fails in that there are some places which have a 
> duplication (or sometimes more than a duplication) of efforts.

Len Sorensen
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