set up a local GE server..?

[jochri]

just a thought:

Is it possible to mirror a complete GE server on a local machine and run GE completly without an Internet connection? i would love to have the whole earth in high res on my local machine...

...what do you think...or maybe google will offer an DVD with an standalone GE version?

[Steeefan]

i don't think that this is possible and it also would be way too much data i think
i also don't think that there will be a GE-DVD

[jochri]

i don't think that this is possible and it also would be way too much data i think..

how much? 100gb more / less?

[felipeboralli]

how much? 100gb more / less?

from http://earth.google.com/earth.html

"Imagery and 3D data depict the entire earth - Terabytes of aerial and satellite imagery depict cities around the world in high-resolution detail."

Well, a Terabyte is 1024 GB, so you can have an idea of how huge the database will be. From what they say, i guess is about 10 TB, or 10240 GB.

[Appletom]

From aecnews.com (http://aecnews.com/articles/1050.aspx):
In May 2005 Keyhole/Google released a new Primary Database, calling it “the largest scale, highest resolution, natural color database of the earth's visual appearance and terrain shape ever assembled.” The new database is approximately 60 terabytes

So - 60 terabytes x 1,024 gigabytes = 61,440 gigs.

The largest hard drive I could find at Newegg.com is 400 gigs and costs $235.00.

It would take 154 of these hard drives to hold the entire GEarth database. So for only $36,190 (plus shipping) you too can have the entire GEarth database - if Google would let you.

[jochri]

it can't be that bad, they sell it:
http://earth.google.com/earth_server.html

[hypeserver]

I'm so setting that up lol. requires 1 gb memory which means these are probaly compressed files that have probaly been compresssed so many times its not funny.

[jochri]

I'm so setting that up lol. requires 1 gb memory which means these are probaly compressed files that have probaly been compresssed so many times its not funny.

well, you can compress images from raw to bmp to jpg to jpg 2000 from high to low quality, you can still use any rar tar and zip compression but it won't make it hardly any smaller than jpg, you can't really compress jpg any further....jpg is the end of the line

[PenguinOpus]

The enterprise version of Google Earth Fusion and Google Earth client (EC) allow you to create and host your own database. Pricing limits this to reasonably large corporations. In all current users, they are hosting their own, smaller, datasets. No one has a copy of the current Google Earth database... too large.