Where is the Isle of Man, anyway?

[h4rdc0d3]

Disclaimer: I know Google Earth won't run on Linux, but occasionally there are certain Windows programs (games notwithstanding) that are pretty cool and I think Google Earth is one of them.

So, without further ado, I give you 3 shots of the Isle of Man from space. One at 1,420 miles, one at 36.5 miles and one of Douglas (the capital and location of Canonical Ltd) at 12 miles.

Google's Legal Statement on the use of data (http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21422&topic=1141)

Edit: I never really answered the question... The Isle of Man is located in the Irish Sea, between Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales.

[xequence]

http://maps.google.com/

You dont have to download anything and you can see satilite images.

I dont know if it works on linux though, I am on windows now.

[drizek]

Disclaimer: I know Google Earth won't run on Linux, but occasionally there are certain Windows programs (games notwithstanding) that are pretty cool and I think Google Earth is one of them.

So, without further ado, I give you 3 shots of the Isle of Man from space. One at 1,420 miles, one at 36.5 miles and one of Douglas (the capital and location of Canonical Ltd) at 12 miles.

Google's Legal Statement on the use of data (http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21422&topic=1141)


you can just use maps.google.com

Edit: works under gecko, opera and khtml 3.5/CVS in linux

[h4rdc0d3]

I just sent a Feature Request email to the Google Earth folks asking them if they have any plans to release it for Linux.

Also, maps.google.com is a far cry from Google Earth... no fly-by's, zooming, movement, etc.

[bored2k]

This is one of the -if not the- most biased polls I've ever seen. Asking this on a linux forum is just hilarious.

I voted no just so we don't get 100% yes.

[h4rdc0d3]

Asking this on a linux forum is just hilarious.

That's what I'm here for... hilarity.

[mike998]

Edit: I never really answered the question... The Isle of Man is located in the Irish Sea, between Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales.

It's on the south coast of England. Saying it's between Scotland and Wales when they are part of the same landmass doesn't scan.... It's like saying Hawaii is between the US and Canada.

Just sayin' is all.

[xmastree]

It's on the south coast of England.Erm... that's the Isle of Wight you're thinking of.

The Isle of Man is definitely between England and Ireland. It's famous for motorcycle racing.

The Isle of Man (http://www.isle-of-man.com/index.shtml)


TT Races (http://www.iomtt.com/)

[h4rdc0d3]

It's on the south coast of England. Saying it's between Scotland and Wales when they are part of the same landmass doesn't scan.... It's like saying Hawaii is between the US and Canada.

LOL... Had you looked at the first image you would've see exactly where it is.

"Stop thinking like an insect!"
- Leonardo Di Caprio as Howard Hughes in Aviator

[xmastree]

And another thing:
(apologies to those who know this...)

Saying it's between Scotland and Wales when they are part of the same landmass doesn't scan....

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/images/britain.jpg


Wales is the light green area, lower centre of picture. Scotland is the large purple area at the top. Now, draw a line from the northernmost point of Wales (the island of Anglesey) to the southernmost point of Scotland.

See that little yellow Island you pass? That's the Isle of man.

The isle of wight is that diamond shaped island, peach coloured, at the bottom, next to the pink bit.

[xmastree]

http://maps.google.com/

You dont have to download anything and you can see satilite images.

I dont know if it works on linux though, I am on windows now.Works for me in Firefox. It's not as nice to use as google Earth, the zooming isn't anywhere near as smooth. But you can still drag the image around with the mouse.
FWIW, I'm here (http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=7.443497,125.809937&sll=53.359580,-2.269546&spn=0.055060,0.065150&sspn=0.004360,0.008572&t=k&num=10&start=0&hl=en)

[parktownprawn]

Similar software has just been ported to linux.

Its still a bit buggy but part of NASA's equivalent to google earth - world wind (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/) - has been ported to linux. Check out ww2d home page (http://ww2d.berlios.de/).

Its also open source which is great.

You can try just running the precompiled binaries which is what i did.

i haven't tried to compile from source.

(hopefully) attached are some Ilse of Man screen shots

[drizek]

Similar software has just been ported to linux.

Its still a bit buggy but part of NASA's equivalent to google earth - World Wind - has been ported to linux. Check out ww2d home page (http://ww2d.berlios.de/).

(hopefully) attached are some Ilse of Man screen shots
DEB! DEB! DEB!

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[jobezone]

Checkout Earth3D at http://www.earth3d.org/

Earth3D is a program that visualizes the earth in realtime in a 3D view. It uses data from NASA, USGS, the CIA and the city of Osnabrück. I would like to thank these organisations to allow me to use their data! The program is available as binary for Linux, MacOS X and Windows under the GPL license. The program's features are

* viewing the earth as a whole
* zooming in until countries, cities and even single houses become visible (in areas where the necessary map resolution is available)
* embedding external data like current earthquake positions or cloud data
It's in Debian Unstable. You can download it's package directly from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/earth3d.
I haven't tried installing it in Ubuntu though.

[mike998]

I sit corrected about it being off the west coast of England.

[xequence]

Do you know what isnt as good as google maps? MSN Virtual Earth. It doesent zoom in very much.

Try toronto... MSN only lets you see the whole city. Google lets you go all the way and see cars =O