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Marble - Desktop Globe

   0.6 ("Integration")  

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Submitted:  Mar 23 2007
Updated:  Aug 16 2008

Description:

Release 0.6 of the Marble Desktop Globe.

Source Code / Binary Release


Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article.

Of course it's also possible to measure distances between locations or watch the current cloud cover. Marble offers different thematic maps: A classroom-style topographic map, a satellite view, street map, earth at night and temperature and precipitation maps. All maps include a custom map key, so it can also be used as an educational tool for use in class-rooms. For educational purposes you can also change date and time and watch how the starry sky and the twilight zone on the map change.

For developers Marble is a light weight generic geographical map component for use in a Qt 4.x / C++ application. It is provided as a library, a QWidget and a KDE 4 KPart and hence can easily get integrated with KDE 4 or Qt 4 applications. By default MarbleWidget shows the earth as a sphere but doesn't make use of any hardware acceleration (No OpenGL).


For more information please visit:

http://edu.kde.org/marble

Download: Please have a look at:

http://edu.kde.org/marble/download.php


Current features include:

* Marble uses a minimal free dataset that can be used offline. Currently the total amount of data that is meant to be shipped is about 10 MB.
* Marble doesn't use OpenGL or 3D hardware acceleration. It just uses Arthur as a 2D painting backend. Depending on your hardware and the maps being displayed framerate is approximately 5-20 fps.
* Marble uses vector as well as bitmap data: Currently it uses the MWDB II data combined with SRTM.
* Different Projections: Globe, Flat Map, Mercator
* Marble should start up almost instantly. Currently it "cold" starts fully within 2-5 seconds. On each subsequent start it takes about one second.
* Uses KML-Import to display places (Google Earths open format to store placemarks), Basic GPX support.
* Cities Down to 12000 inhabitants that you can click on using the mouse. Highest Mountains of each continent. Automatic Placemark label placement.
* Several Map Themes: Atlas, Satellite View, OpenStreetMap, Night Map, Temperature and Precipitation Maps.
* Sun Shading, Real-Time Clouds
* Dynamic Coordinate Grid
* Measure Tool
* Basic Wikipedia integration
* Starry Sky Plugins

* And many, many more ...




Changelog:

For a detailed Visual Changelog, please have a look at:

http://edu.kde.org/marble/current.php




License: LGPL
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Debian(Debian - Lenny)
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 Marble rocks

 
 by kwwii on: Mar 23 2007  
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Great stuff...it is amazing how smoothly it works. REALLY NICE!

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 Sources?

 
 by BorgQueen on: Mar 23 2007  
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I'd love to try this out but I need to build from source, where can I dl them?

thanks


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 Re: Sources?

 
 by tackat on: Mar 23 2007  
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E.g. here:

http://developer.kde.org/~tackat/marble/kubuntu/marble_0.3-1.tar.gz

Or you can build directly from SVN: You need Qt 4.2, subversion ("svn") and cmake installed. Then do:

cd ~
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/base/marble
mkdir marble_build
cd marble_build
cmake -DQTONLY=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ~/marble
make
sudo make install

and launch it via "marble" from the command line or from the menu.

Torsten Rahn


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 Re: Re: Sources?

 
 by BorgQueen on: Mar 23 2007  
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Thank you for your time. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks again.


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 Well, it's beta..

 
 by 747419 on: Mar 23 2007  
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I fetched the SuSE-package offered from KDE-Playground and installed it via smart, so installing was no problem at all. Unfortunatly I can't seem to run it properly:

kalle@linux-9asa:~> marble
No Tiles Found!
No Tiles Found!
No Tiles Found!
No Tiles Found!
Base tiles not available. Creating Tiles ...
creating tiles from: "/usr/share/apps/marble/data/maps/etopo2/etopo.jpg"
Ungültiger Maschinenbefehl ('invalid machine-command')

That's a pitty, since I really like the whole concept. Any hints for troubleshooting?

...and good luck for developing this thingy into a final-release!


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 Re: Well, it's beta..

 
 by tackat on: Mar 23 2007  
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That doesn't look like a problem of the software. That looks like you grabbed the packages for the wrong plattform. Are you trying to run it on a x86_64 maybe?


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 Re: Re: Well, it's b

 
 by 747419 on: Mar 23 2007  
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Nope, I'm running a 32bit-openSuSE 10.2 on a 32bit-machine and took the package offered via smart / KDE-Playground (version 0.3-2.1@586). The URL to that channel is http://software.opensuse.org/download/KDE:/Playground/openSUSE_10.2/


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 Re: Re: Re: Well, it's b

 
 by tackat on: Mar 25 2007  
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Would you mind to send me some more information about your hardware (tackat@kde.org)? Thanks in advance!


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 Fantastic

 
 by nemti on: Mar 24 2007  
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This is really cool. I've been having trouble with Google Earth due to the OpenGL requirements, but Marble works like a charm. Looking forward to the next release.


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 awesome

 
 by nuka on: Mar 25 2007  
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Its great, very smooth and pretty.

It should display country names though, right now it is just major cities.

Oxygen icons on the Navigation tab would be nice.

And of course, this being a KDE app, more options ;) Like the ability to turn off city names entirely.

Also, jpeg artifacts get pretty bad when you zoom in a lot. Maybe use higher quality jpg or png to make it more useful offline. An extra 2 or 3mb isnt going to make much difference to anyone but will make this app a lot better.

And I, for one, would not mind having MS world/globe/whatever they call it images for it. We are stuck using proprietary google apps for this purpose anyway, so its a step up.


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 Re: awesome

 
 by tackat on: Mar 25 2007  
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> It should display country names [...]
> Oxygen icons on the Navigation [...]
> more options ;)

Those things are on my Todo list already. So be patient, as I want to implement it the right way (tm ;-). Concerning the options: Yes, there will be the possibility to turn layers off. But I want to do it in a non-obtrusive way (as part of the legend actually) to provide good usability.

> Also, jpeg artifacts get pretty bad

Yes, this is the initial offline database. Satellite View and Night View are currently just provided as a proof of concept. The primary map is the topographic map.
Next on my TODO is however the capability to download further tiles.
So then the Satellite view should a much higher resolution (comparable to Nasa World Wind).
Concerning Virtual Earth: I will have a look at the way they store their tiles.


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 Virtual Earth

 
 by outolumo on: Mar 29 2007  
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There may be a legal issue:

"Microsoft products, services, and Web content—including images, text, and software downloads (collectively, "Products and Services")—are owned by Microsoft Corporation and/or by Microsoft vendors, who have given Microsoft permission to use the Products and Services.

Unless Microsoft explicitly gives you permission within the End-User License Agreement (EULA) or License Terms that accompany the Products and Services and/or in the guidelines below, you may not copy, modify, distribute, display, license, or sell any Products and Services or components contained in them.

For more information, consult your copyright attorney."

Especially the part "copy, modify, distribute, display"


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 Re: awesome

 
 by tackat on: Mar 25 2007  
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> It should display country names [...]
> Oxygen icons on the Navigation [...]
> more options ;)

Those things are on my Todo list already. So be patient, as I want to implement it the right way (tm ;-). Concerning the options: Yes, there will be the possibility to turn layers off. But I want to do it in a non-obtrusive way (as part of the legend actually) to provide good usability.

> Also, jpeg artifacts get pretty bad

Yes, this is the initial offline database. Satellite View and Night View are currently just provided as a proof of concept. The primary map is the topographic map.
Next on my TODO is however the capability to download further tiles.
So then the Satellite view should a much higher resolution (comparable to Nasa World Wind).
Concerning Virtual Earth: I will have a look at the way they store their tiles.


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 good stuff but...

 
 by chandraiitk on: Mar 25 2007  
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it didnt work smoothly on my FC6 box (used RPM package to install). It was quite slow when resizing or scrolling. Please improve the app in future releases. It is going to be a good substitute for the Google-Earth.

Also, could you please specify system requirement for its smooth functionality?!!

Other than these, the vertical distance measurement didnt seem to be correct. It could measure horizontal distance accurately but failed to measure vertical distances appropriately. Please check it out.

Thanks, good luck and keep it up!!

Owning computers nowadays is a bit like having a pet rabbit,
It needs to be fed with right stuff or it gets sick.

Try Firefox [http://www.mozilla.com/firefox] --- the right stuff!
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 Re: good stuff but...

 
 by tackat on: Mar 25 2007  
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> Also, could you please specify
> system requirement for its smooth
> functionality?!!

That's pretty hard to do. It really depends on your processor (Intel seems to be better there for whatever reason) and the 2D (not 3D) performance of your graphics card. Right now it should perform a lot better than pure Mesa without DRI enabled.
I will try to improve performance further (also by providing a slider which will gradually improve speed at expense of the display quality). I also plan to add an optional OpenGL backend later. However that doesn't have high priority right now.

> Other than these, the vertical
> distance measurement didnt seem

I just verified it and I don't see an error. The measure results look very much correct to me. If I measure e.g. the distance between Flensburg (Germany) and Tunis I get almost exactly 2000 km on Marble. This seems to be correct as other virtual globes show the very same distance down to the kilometer.

If you still think there's an error please send me your example measurement to tackat@kde.org.


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 Re: Re: good stuff b

 
 by chandraiitk on: Mar 26 2007  
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hello, i tried u send u email on the address u had given (tackat@kde.org) but there seems to be some problem with this email address. Gmail reports that the message hasnt been delivered yet (i sent it yesterday itself). Please give me another email address. If u wish, u may drop a mail at shekharc.2004@gmail.com instead of here (however, here also it is ok but I cant post snapshot of the error here)..

Owning computers nowadays is a bit like having a pet rabbit,
It needs to be fed with right stuff or it gets sick.

Try Firefox [http://www.mozilla.com/firefox] --- the right stuff!
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 Re: Re: Re: good stuff b

 
 by tackat on: Mar 26 2007  
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The KDE project had technical problems with its mail / server infrastructure over the weekend. So if some mail didn't arrive please retry.


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