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#1 2014-06-19 10:10:20

OdinEidolon
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From: Belluno - Italy
Registered: 2011-01-31
Posts: 498

Alternative to Google Earth with image overlay and profile support

Hi all,
I want to get rid of google-earth because of it's very heavy resource usage and large number of lib32 dependencies pulled in.

I use just 2 features:
- image overlay (for trekking 1:25k maps)
- path creation and elevation profiling over path (also for trekking purposes)

Does anyone know a software that makes this possible? IIRC Marble's image overlay is pretty absent without tinkering and WorldWind looks like a complete mess, I installed it but was not able to understand anything of how it works.

Thanks in advance for any suggestion.


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#2 2014-07-17 15:05:30

nomorewindows
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Re: Alternative to Google Earth with image overlay and profile support

Worldwind is nice for a quick viewer, but there are other applications that can do the same, such as viking, qlandkartegt.  Marble doesn't completely use the kml format.  Then you could always try qgis.  It's nice once you get it compiled.


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#3 2014-07-18 07:22:58

OdinEidolon
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From: Belluno - Italy
Registered: 2011-01-31
Posts: 498

Re: Alternative to Google Earth with image overlay and profile support

nomorewindows wrote:

Worldwind is nice for a quick viewer, but there are other applications that can do the same, such as viking, qlandkartegt.  Marble doesn't completely use the kml format.  Then you could always try qgis.  It's nice once you get it compiled.

Thank you!
I will try the three programs you suggested.


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