[Techtalk] Intro and a question

Andrea Landaker qirien at icecavern.net
Wed Jun 6 02:42:50 UTC 2007


> My one question seems pretty simple on the surface. I'm also a ham radio
> operator and we are building up a van to go storm chasing in. I need a
> mapping software similar to Microsoft Streets and Trips, Rand McNally
> Road Atlas, or the DeLorme mapping software [ can't remember the name
> right off ]. Whatever i get has to have street level mapping for at
> least Oklahoma and Kansas. It would be nice to have national at that
> level, but not really necessary. It needs to be in an RPM format
> suitable sor SuSE [I have very poor luck with CLI stuff]. Wine doesn't
> seem to be a workable solution either. I've never been able to get
> something to run there.
>
> Does anyone know of anything like this for Linux?

Well, you could try using Googleearth (http://earth.google.com/).  If you 
don't have internet access on the road, you can try various ways of accessing 
data offline:

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2005/08/offline_google.html
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/40371/page/vc

This will probably only work offline if you don't need too much map data.

-- 
Andrea Landaker
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/


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