Gaia este un proiect care incearca sa fac reverse engineer la aplicatia celor de la Google. Ei incearca sa o demonteze, sa o monteze la loc pentru a o putea oferii nu numai gratuit ci si customizabila, portabila, deschisa, ce mai, open source.
Chiar daca Gaia este departe de finalitate acesta ofera destule facilitati: Keyhole authentication, 3D earth view, navigation, layers, NMEA GPS.
O alternativa Open Source la Google Earth este NASA World Wind care, paradoxal ruleaza doar pe Windows.
Nu e o veste prea buna! 🙁
Gaia tocmai a fost inchis:
25 November 2006, we’ve got the letter from Michael Jones, the Chief Technologist of Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Local search, requesting us to cease reverse engineering and improper usage of licensed data that Google Earth use. We understand and respect Google’s position on the case, so we’ve removed all downloads from this page and we ask everybody who have ever downloaded gaia 0.1.0 and prior versions to delete all files concerned with the project, which include source code, binary files and image cache (~/.gaia).