having Marble find the right data files

Henrik Brautaset Aronsen subsurface at henrik.synth.no
Sat May 25 23:05:25 PDT 2013


Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> I have thought about doing this as well. Given how small these files are
> I guess it's not too big of a deal - but it makes the question about the
> potential violation of Google's terms of service more difficult. If we
> use the Google maps just inside of Subsurface it is clear that they are
> not used for navigation, for example. Yet if we copy these files into
> the user's ~/.local directory then any app using Marble will (be able
> to) use the Google maps... so this is definitely going a step further
> than what I did.
>
> So I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with your change :-(

Fair enough.  But if we don't find a way of making Marble do what we 
need, this is the only solution right now for installed versions of 
Subsurface.  Right?

Henrik


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