googleearth

[François Patte]

Bonjour,

I have just installed googleearth (stable current) from an rpm
downloaded from google-earth site.

It seems to work, but if I ask for a location, it always zooms at the
same place: somewhere in the atlantic ocean south of Africa, south of
the Ivory coast.

Is it a bug? Is there something to configure?

Thank you.

[Gary Stainburn]

On Friday 14 October 2016 09:11:08 Franc3a7ois Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I have just installed googleearth (stable current) from an rpm
> downloaded from google-earth site.
>
> It seems to work, but if I ask for a location, it always zooms at the
> same place: somewhere in the atlantic ocean south of Africa, south of
> the Ivory coast.
>
> Is it a bug? Is there something to configure?
>
> Thank you.

I believe that GoogleEarth tries to detect your location and default to there.  
If it cannot do it by any other means I think it takes the location from your 
IP address.

Does your ISP have an office on a ship?

[François Patte]

Le 14/10/2016 à 11:34, Gary Stainburn a écrit :
> On Friday 14 October 2016 09:11:08 Franc3a7ois Patte wrote:
> > Bonjour,
> >
> > I have just installed googleearth (stable current) from an rpm
> > downloaded from google-earth site.
> >
> > It seems to work, but if I ask for a location, it always zooms at the
> > same place: somewhere in the atlantic ocean south of Africa, south of
> > the Ivory coast.
> >
> > Is it a bug? Is there something to configure?
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> I believe that GoogleEarth tries to detect your location and default to there.  
> If it cannot do it by any other means I think it takes the location from your 
> IP address.

No! This is not the problem I have: when I open googleearth, it centers
on France which is a good choice if it tries first to take my location
from IP address.

*But* if I search a location, say Paris, it goes in the Atlantic ocean,
south of the Ivory coast.
> Does your ISP have an office on a ship?

I'll send it a mail to enquire about this!

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/14/16 18:00, François Patte wrote:
> No! This is not the problem I have: when I open googleearth, it centers
> on France which is a good choice if it tries first to take my location
> from IP address.
>
> *But* if I search a location, say Paris, it goes in the Atlantic ocean,
> south of the Ivory coast.

In the search box of Google Earth I type "Paris, France" and pick it and it goes directly
there.

FWIW, I have my Starting Location set to a point in Taipei, Taiwan.

[David A. De Graaf]

On 10/14/16 04:11, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I have just installed googleearth (stable current) from an rpm
> downloaded from google-earth site.
>
> It seems to work, but if I ask for a location, it always zooms at the
> same place: somewhere in the atlantic ocean south of Africa, south of
> the Ivory coast.
>
> Is it a bug? Is there something to configure?
>
> Thank you.

If you haven't already noticed, that corresponds to the point defined by

0 deg Latitude, 0 deg Longitude.  Google 'Null Island" for some laughs.

So it would seem that your instance of Googleearth is dropping zeroes

instead of the correct lat and lon for a geographic place.

Sorry, that's the limit of my diagnostic skills

[Fred Smith]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:11:08AM +0200, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I have just installed googleearth (stable current) from an rpm
> downloaded from google-earth site.
>
> It seems to work, but if I ask for a location, it always zooms at the
> same place: somewhere in the atlantic ocean south of Africa, south of
> the Ivory coast.
>
> Is it a bug? Is there something to configure?

I am not running the new Linux binary of Google Earth, so I probably
can't help much. All I can say is the one I"m running doesn't do
what you describe.

Now, the prior version (that I"m using) is horribly broken in several
ways, and google left it in that state for years. however there is
a large forum thread (more than one, actually) where one guy gives
a TON of  helpful information on how to hack at it to make it work,
including some tweaks to make it work on Fedora (which also happen to
work on centos-7, which I use.) So, you may find it helpful to find
that thread and revert to the prior version (if you can find it).

Good luck!

[François Patte]

Le 14/10/2016 à 19:29, Fred Smith a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:11:08AM +0200, François Patte wrote:
> > Bonjour,
> >
> > I have just installed googleearth (stable current) from an rpm
> > downloaded from google-earth site.
> >
> > It seems to work, but if I ask for a location, it always zooms at the
> > same place: somewhere in the atlantic ocean south of Africa, south of
> > the Ivory coast.
> >
> > Is it a bug? Is there something to configure?
>
> I am not running the new Linux binary of Google Earth, so I probably
> can't help much. All I can say is the one I"m running doesn't do
> what you describe.
>
> Now, the prior version (that I"m using) is horribly broken in several
> ways, and google left it in that state for years. however there is
> a large forum thread (more than one, actually) where one guy gives
> a TON of  helpful information on how to hack at it to make it work,
> including some tweaks to make it work on Fedora (which also happen to
> work on centos-7, which I use.) So, you may find it helpful to find
> that thread and revert to the prior version (if you can find it).

Thank you for this advice. Can you give a link to this forum?

Thanks

[Fred Smith]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:19:08PM +0200, François Patte wrote:
> Le 14/10/2016 à 19:29, Fred Smith a écrit :
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:11:08AM +0200, François Patte wrote:
> > > Bonjour,
> > >
> > > I have just installed googleearth (stable current) from an rpm
> > > downloaded from google-earth site.
> > >
> > > It seems to work, but if I ask for a location, it always zooms at the
> > > same place: somewhere in the atlantic ocean south of Africa, south of
> > > the Ivory coast.
> > >
> > > Is it a bug? Is there something to configure?
> >
> > I am not running the new Linux binary of Google Earth, so I probably
> > can't help much. All I can say is the one I"m running doesn't do
> > what you describe.
> >
> > Now, the prior version (that I"m using) is horribly broken in several
> > ways, and google left it in that state for years. however there is
> > a large forum thread (more than one, actually) where one guy gives
> > a TON of  helpful information on how to hack at it to make it work,
> > including some tweaks to make it work on Fedora (which also happen to
> > work on centos-7, which I use.) So, you may find it helpful to find
> > that thread and revert to the prior version (if you can find it).
>
> Thank you for this advice. Can you give a link to this forum?

I haven't bookmarked it, so I'd have to go digging. you should be able to
find it at google by digging around for google's user forums. if you can't
find it post here and I'll go digging.

[geo.inbox.ignored]

On 10/15/2016 05:19 AM, François Patte wrote:
<<<>>>
> Thank you for this advice. Can you give a link to this forum?

==>

gaagle's _new_ 'google earth community' forum is found among page;

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!home