Marble (computer program)
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 Satellite view with clouds and nightshades |
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| Maintainer | Torsten Rahn |
| developer | KDE |
| Publishing year | November 2006 |
| Current version | 08/18/1 (September 6, 2018) |
| operating system | Platform independent |
| programming language | C ++ |
| category | cartography |
| License | LGPL ( Free Software ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
| marble.kde.org | |
Marble is a free program for displaying geographic maps. It was developed for the KDE Software Compilation 4 , is based on Qt4 and is part of the KDE education project . It runs on all common operating systems such as Linux , Mac OS X and MS Windows .
Geothek is a spin-off from Marble. Geothek is operated by Ed. Hölzel developed and sold as software for school atlases.
Scope and functionalities
The program can show the globe and other celestial bodies such as the moon, Mars or Venus, which can be rotated and enlarged as required. The scope of delivery is 5-10 megabytes of vector and bitmap data. Additional map material is automatically downloaded from the Internet and can be added manually. It is also possible to create and integrate your own maps.
development
Many more features were added in subsequent KDE versions. Now even more world map views are possible. In addition to the classic globe and a flat map, a Mercator projection can also be selected . Cloud images can be projected live onto the globe via the Internet and current weather data can be displayed for many locations. A Wikipedia module generates symbols in the places for which an article exists in the English Wikipedia. An OpenStreetMap map, which is compared with the Internet, is also available to the user. A route planner has also been included since KDE SC 4.5 . In its mobile version, Marble runs on the Nokia N900.
Awards
Marble won the "Qt Center Programming Contest 2007" in the "Desktop Application" category.
Web links
- Official website of Marble
- Summary for Marble in the FreeGIS database
Individual evidence
- ↑ The marble Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page . In: Open Hub . (accessed on July 17, 2018).
- ↑ http://sourceforge.net/projects/geothek/
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://marble.garage.maemo.org/
- ↑ The Qt Center Programming Contest Results ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
