Can you tell me where to find the adverts in Google Earth please?

I was using WorldWind before I came across Google Earth and it looked like a very cool app. I even downloaded the source and compiled my own version to have a better play with it. Then I found Google Earth and the fact that their imagery was so detailed just blew WW out of the water. At that time (it may have changed since, I don't know) WW was stuck with publicly available Landsat imagery that just about let you recognise something the size of a football pitch. With Google Earth I could see when the grass in our back garden is a bit brown because we've had a hot summer... Also the georegistration of WorldWind imagery seemed to be kilometers off, at least around me.

WorldWind looked like it would be good if you were an academic who wanted to overlay your own datasets onto the base imagery but I believe Google Earth lets you do that sort of thing now.

In short I believe Google Earth just outcompeted WorldWind in the things that the majority of people want to do.

Andrew

Yeah, all those free services and software applications are really annoying aren't they? You should ask for your money back.

Andrew

Funny that, I've never encountered one of these paid for sites. Most of my searches lead to http://www.datasheetcatalog.com for instance Googling "datasheet lm293" gives http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+datasheet+lm293&btnG=Search

Andrew

Though I was wondering, are there any with open source software?  Or at least software with a plugin interface to write your own analyzers?

I've been lusting over the Saleae logic analyzers recently too. From what I remember they have an SDK that lets you write your own plugin protocol analyzers. And the software is soon to be cross platform - woot!

Andrew

[EDIT: Oops, I think this has come up before (http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1266076921)]

This cropped up over in another thread (http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1280914282/10#10). An unknown amount of the code in the Playground (and elsewhere) no longer works with the latest version of the IDE/libraries, or with later versions of the mcu (e.g. 328 registers versus 168). Would it help to have some kind of record inside the sketch of which IDE version and mcu it was written for, say in the form of #defines or #pragma statements? It wouldn't stop code rot, but the IDE could flag it up as a potential problem.

For instance you could have something like this in the sketch:

Code:

#define ARDUINO_CPU atmega328
#define ARDUINO_IDE 0.19

which the IDE would recognise and act on. Obviously it would be human readable as well.

Andrew

EDIT: Oops, I think this has come up before (http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1266076921)  :-[

Duemilanove = Italian for 2009

Processing is open source, and anyone is free to contribute code for it. And by anyone I mean people who don't like how it does things.

Andrew

mbed works like that (http://mbed.org/) and people praise it and moan about it in equal measure.

Andrew