Tag Archive for 'GPX'

Face Recognition for Linux with Picasa 3.5 and Wine

Face Recognition for Linux haven’t been available on Linux yet. Sure – there are some ready-to-use libs, but that’s interesting for developers only. When it came to ready-to-use applications, you only could choose between MacOS or Windows. (Excuse me, but face recognition at Google’s PicasaWeb Album is a bit too spooky for me and I [...]

One year Open Street Map in an amazing clip

Anders just told me to look at this great video about the Open Street Map project.

http://vimeo.com/2598878

It’s very impressive!
It’s showing the development of the OSM project on a rotating globe within the last year.

Google Earth 4.3 (Beta) crashes on Linux (Problem solved by workaround)

Perform these three lines, if it still doesn’t work, read the workaround described below:
cd ~/.googleearth
wget http://mymediasystem.net/wp/2009/01/libGL.so.1.2
googleearth
If it crashes again, you can give it one further try by removing the lock file and myplaces (back them up, if necessary):

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GPS Bicycle Navigation with free Software

More than I year ago I’ve started to cycle for the first time after a very long period of time (decades ). Those days I didn’t know my surrounding area very well, because I was pretty new to it. But I had a Pocket PC, an XDA mini and I had already a [...]