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of time of day and location. From Wyoming at 2200, I never get any. From the same location at 1300 I occasionally do. If I were in SFO, I'm sure I'd get more.

In fact you're using Google Maps, not Earth. big differenceIf you'd be using the Google Earth servers, you wouldn't be locked out. ever. But then you would have to cryptographically authenticate to the servers and you'd have to decrypt almost every byte you'd get.But that access module couldn't be published (if it existed)A similar project, libgaia 0.1.0 was "disappeared" from the Internet by Google themselves. Soft pressure towards the author, you know ;)