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Subject:        Re: Google Earth
Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:36:30 -0800 (PST)
From:   Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:       Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>



Chris,

We have Google Earth Pro on all of our cluster machines. People need a
Stanford ID to log onto these machines. (We have very few public kiosks
and they are really stripped down.) This may not be in the same as in
your situation, but we have had no problems with having GEPro on the
machines in terms of security. We are the same as an earlier reply. When
the student logs off, all of the temporary files are deleted. While they
are logged in, they can get to their AFS space and keep things there. It
seems to work well.

Julie

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Google Earth
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:15:48 +0000
From: Christopher Thiry <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>



Howdy,

Does anyone have Google Earth loaded on their public machines?

Google Earth is a marvelous thing, but it is irrelevant when I am doing
reference work because the users don't have access to it on the public
machines. I want to convince my computer folks that Google Earth should
be installed on a public machine--but they are very concerned about
security, etc.

If you have Google Earth on your public machines, how did you convince
your computer folks to allow this?

How locked down is it? -- can you upload files to "Temporary Places"?
Can you move those to "My Places"? Can you lock down "My Places"?

What problems has Google Earth caused vis-a-vissecurity, etc.?

thanks in advance,

Christopher J.J.Thiry
Map Librarian
Colorado School of Mines
1400 Illinois
Golden, CO 80401
p. 303-273-3697
f. 303-273-3199
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http://library.mines.edu/