Today, after weathering a head cold, I once again feel human. So this morning I added a few things to the AA1. First I added USAPhotomaps, a program that downloads USGS aerial photo and topo map data from Microsoft's free TerraServer Web site. This is a very nice freeware program, and can be downloaded from the authors site, along with his other work right here.
I tested USAPhotomaps with my two GPS devices. One is a Ambeon Bluetooth GPS receiver the other a Microsoft Pharos USB GPS receiver. Both receivers worked with USAPhotomaps with out a hitch. Here is a sample screen capture of this program focused on a local near by park.
After this test I went on to download Google Earth 5.0 to see how it would work with these same devices. Once again, both devices worked right off the bat with Google Earth, and the new version or Google earth also now encompasses Land, Sky and Sea. It keeps getting better with each revision.
Google Earth does warn you that the screen resolution of 1024x768 is less than optimum but it will let you continue and it will run just fine on the Acer Aspire One.
Here is a screen capture of the first screen on Google Earth after the initial startup.
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