Google Earth help

N17 · 11 Dec 2015 at 20:05

So I'am using Google Earth, for a minor mapping project, and yet after I have cleared the cache and disk cache, there are parts of it which are still blurred, why and is there anything I can do so it isn't blurry?

snips86x · 11 Dec 2015 at 20:12

I'm not sure how the rending works but can you choose between software or hardware rendering?

SexyGreyFox · 11 Dec 2015 at 21:53

Have you got an example I can try on mine?

Glaucus · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:03

Thread hijack.
Google earth essentially crashes when I try to load a massive gps file. Wondering if its googe earth that can't handle it or if my computer just aint up to the task, it's a slow i3 with only 4gb ram.

Wondering if someone with a beast of a machine could try it and see if it works?
Gpx file can be had here.
http://waymarkedtrails.org/en/routebrowser/1254604/gpx

It becomes unresponsive when I try zooming in or panning.

snips86x · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:09

Glaucus said:
Thread hijack.
Google earth essentially crashes when I try to load a massive gps file. Wondering if its googe earth that can't handle it or if my computer just aint up to the task, it's a slow i3 with only 4gb ram.

Wondering if someone with a beast of a machine could try it and see if it works?
Gpx file can be had here.
http://waymarkedtrails.org/en/routebrowser/1254604/gpx

It becomes unresponsive when I try zooming in or panning.

Testing...

edit:

I've loaded the file and I can zoom/pan without an issue. It doesn't seem to use much RAM when loading the GPS file, 315mb. I am running an i7 with 16GB RAM though.

SexyGreyFox · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:24

Glaucus said:
Thread hijack.
Google earth essentially crashes when I try to load a massive gps file. Wondering if its googe earth that can't handle it or if my computer just aint up to the task, it's a slow i3 with only 4gb ram.

Wondering if someone with a beast of a machine could try it and see if it works?
Gpx file can be had here.
http://waymarkedtrails.org/en/routebrowser/1254604/gpx

It becomes unresponsive when I try zooming in or panning.

I also have an i& with 16gb and whatever it is I can zoom & pan.
What exactly is your file and what does it do?

snips86x · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:25

SexyGreyFox said:
I also have an i& with 16gb and whatever it is I can zoom & pan.
What exactly is your file and what does it do?

...have we just been hijacked by blindly following your instructions :eek:

Glaucus · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:31

SexyGreyFox said:
I also have an i& with 16gb and whatever it is I can zoom & pan.
What exactly is your file and what does it do?

it's a route, should be showing a blue track across the north coast of Europe.

yeah on my laptop it's only showing 700mb and 25% cpu yet as soon as I try panning or zooming it just doesn't do anything and becomes seemingly permanently unresponsive.

snips86x · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:32

Any services you could stop to free up RAM?

Glaucus · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:33

snips86x said:
Any services you could stop to free up RAM?

it's only showing 50% ram used with google earth using 40ish %

but there's another 3 I want to import as well, one of them is almost twice as long.

Glaucus · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:40

just realised when importing the file, you need to select kml line strings. which makes it groan under the stress.

SexyGreyFox · 11 Dec 2015 at 23:07

Glaucus said:
just realised when importing the file, you need to select kml line strings. which makes it groan under the stress.

Clicking on that does make it unusable.

Now getting Google Earth is not responding.

Glaucus · 11 Dec 2015 at 23:09

Well that's disappointing. I really don't want to plot these by hand, comparing one map to another

snips86x · 11 Dec 2015 at 23:10

Mine was slow as hell as well. Not ground to a halt, but I couldn't use it while it was loading the GPS file.

Take that back...lol...sporadic 'not responding'