On Thu, 07 May 2020 12:25:41 -0700, bensoaring wrote:

Bummer! Bummer! Bummer! Darn you Google!

The current GEP no longer lets user locate by coordinates. Seems Google
has also removed the feature allowing map rotation and tilt view. These
were a very useful XC/contest soaring features.

????? Why do you think that?

Paste coordinates into the search box and click "Search" and Google Earth
Pro goes there, just like it has always done. Of course, you need to have
the coordinates in a form it understands, but that's always been the case.

This is GEP 7.3.3.7673 (64-bit) - just tried it with co-ords copied from
a Wikipedia page, which worked as I expected it would. I also swiped TP
coordinates of a crossroad near Cambridge and that woked too with a light
edit: the DAT format is

52:07.750N,000:13.326E which GE doesn't like, so I tweaked it to
52 07.750 N 000 13.326 E which works just fine.

More annoying is the way that Google tends to change where the executable
lives on your computer and what its called just because they can. That is
just as easy to fix by edit your desktop launcher so it knows where GE
now lives and what its called, but some browsers (take a bow, Brave) will
no longer be able to find it and can't be told where it now is. This will
mess up launching it from Wikipedia map pages, but you can still start it
manually and do a cut'n paste with the coordinates.

Plenty of FOSS stuff out there - look for GPS mapping programs, but why
bother? Google Earth Pro works just fine.


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