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The Answer To “Google Earth”, Universe And Everything Else
No It's Not 42 ;)
It's MarbleMarble 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. Get wikipedia Articles of places of interest , Plan Your Journey using detailed Maps .
In opposite to other virtual globes Marble also features multiple projections: Choose between a Flat Map ("Plate carré"), Mercator or the Globe.
The best of all: Marble is Free Software / Open Source Software and promotes the usage of free maps. And it's available for all major operating systems (Linux/Unix, MS Windows and Mac OS X).
Marble and Geo Content
Wikipedia Defines GeoContent as “It's is an abbreviation of geographic content. Geo-content is information that is valuable to a
specific audience based on their location, and is generated by integrating data stored in a
Geographic Information System (GIS) database with data stored in a non-spatial database”
Geo-Content
●Open Content●Closed Content
Open-Content
●Geo Rss & KML●Wikipedia●NASA Blue Marble●Open Street Map
Closed Geo-Content
●Panoramio●Twitter●Social Networks
Demo
Panoramio
Identi.ca
Features of Marble Widget
●Marble uses a decent minimal free dataset that can be used offline ( 10 MB )
●Download data from the internet on demand,Wikipedia integration, OpenStreetMap
●Runs well without hardware acceleration (no●OpenGL so far)●No dependency except for Qt4.3●Startup time about 25 secs, fast
[email protected]: #kdeeduon irc.freenode.orghttp://edu.kde.org/marble Special Thanks to Torsten Rahn , inge wallin & Patrick Spendrin for helping me :)
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