Google earth is popular application from google to see earth / maps. It available for most popular operating system include linux system. With Google Earth application, will allows you to travel the world through a virtual globe and view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and much more. With Google Earth's rich, geographical content, you are able to experience a more realistic view of the world. You can fly to your favorite place, search for businesses and even navigate through directions.
Official sites:
https://www.google.com/earth/
This apps is 32bit versions so if you running 64bit archlinux makesure you have enable the multilib.
Installation in archlinux (AUR):
$wget -c https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/google-earth.tar.gz$wget -c https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/ld-lsb.tar.gz$tar -xvzf google-earth.tar.gz$tar -xvzf ld-lsb.tar.gz$cd ld-lsb$makepkg -s$sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz$cd ..$cd google-earth$makepkg -s$sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz
When done, it's available on internet categories, or you can run "google-earth" from terminal.
Here's the user interface of google earth:
Now you can explore any area in earth, you can also enable 3D buildings for better looking. :)
Beside earth you can also see moon, mars, and sky.
SKY |
MARS |
MOON |
Okay that's it enjoy and explore the google earths.
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