On Tuesday 01 September 2015 09:08:19 Richard Owlett wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 September 2015 01:41:20 rlhar...@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
Its the live weathermap on the web site of your local tv station. it shows a couple of usages on <www.wdtv.com> and seems to have become the favorite way to display the last 4 hours of so of radar detected weather activity. The background data is from google of course, called google maps, its a login required page at google, I don't remember my pw so I've had the site email a reset msg. The web server using it then overlays the radar data in a roughly 4 hours worth of history moving overlay. That email hasn't been received, so I assume I have never registered. Didn't need to, the weather maps work fine for that here. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
