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A Virtual Globe For People

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A Virtual Globe For People
Torsten Rahn
<rahn@kde.org>
basysKom GmbH

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A Virtual Globe For People
Motivation – User POV
Provides an educational map to learn more about
the world.
Provides a map widget to help you find directions
(Geo­localization, Routing).

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Motivation – Developer POV
Provides a map component that is easy to
integrate into your application

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Examples Of Use
KDE Control Center (Personalization Wallpaper)
KDE­Edu (Marble Desktop Globe, KStars)
KDE­PIM (Kontact, KAddressbook, Kopete)
KDE Games (Risk)
Others: Wallpaper, ktraceroute, …
What's your idea ? Where's your patch ;­) ?

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Qt­Designer Integration, Marble Widget, KPart,
Plasmoid, GraphicsView

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Example Of Use
KDE Graphics ( digiKam 10 )

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A Virtual Globe For People
Examples Of Use
KOffice 2:
KDE 4
KWorldClock
Plasmoid

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Current Development Focus
Qt library with a Qt'ish API to provide a map
Projections (even non­cartesian ones).
Data structure modeled after OGC standard KML
Geo­GraphicsView
Plugin architecture

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// Example 1: Annotation
GeoDataCoordinates akademy2009( ­15.43, 28.1, 0.0,
GeoDataCoordinates::Degree );
painter­>drawAnnotation ( akademy2009, "Akademy 2009,n 3­
11 July 2009,n KDE conference" );
// Example 2: Triangle
GeoDataLinearRing triangle2( Tessellate );
GeoDataCoordinates t4(0.0, 90.0, 0.0,
GeoDataCoordinates::Degree );
GeoDataCoordinates t5(­102.5, 45.0, 0.0,
GeoDataCoordinates::Degree );
GeoDataCoordinates t6(­167.5, 45.0, 0.0,
GeoDataCoordinates::Degree );
triangle2 << t4 << t5 << t6;

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Platforms
Linux, Unix
MacOS X,
MS Windows
(Qtopia, WinCE)
Only dependency of libmarble: Qt 4.x
KDE and Qt­only version of Marble application

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Marble 0.8 is available in over 30 languages

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{marble­data­base­url}/maps/earth/{theme}/
{level}/{row}/{row}_{column}.jpg
> marble ­­tile­id

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OpenStreetMap
Support:
­ Tile Data
­ OSM name
finder

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New Features in Marble 0.8 / KDE 4.3
­ Dynamic Graticule Plugin
­ Support for other planets, Observatories
­ Online­Services: Wikipedia, Flickr
­ Improved „Current Location“ display („GPS“)
­ Faster Map Download
­ Experimental GeoClue Integration (?)

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Future ­ Marble 0.9 / KDE 4.4
„GeoView“ ­ Interface: Minimalistic BC interface
Full GeoClue / Geo Localization Integration
Move of libmarble into kdesupport
More Online­Services (GSoC 2009),
e.g. Weather Plugin, Social Map Plugin
Drawing and Editing Tools

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Marble needs your help!
We need Software Developers, Translators,
Editors, Web Designers, Quality Assurance
people and You!
marble­devel@kde.org
IRC: #kde­edu on irc.freenode.org
http://edu.kde.org/marble

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Thanks to ...
Bastian Holst, Jens­Michael Hoffmann, Inge
Wallin, Patrick Spendrin, Harry de Valence,
Carlos Licea, Eckhard Wörner, Andrew Manson,
Murat Tagirov, Nicolas Zimmermann, Pino
Toscano, Anne­Marie Mahfouf, Claudiu Covaci,
David Roberts, Jan Becker, Laurent Montel,
Simon Schmeisser, Shashank Singh, KDE's
Translation team,
And all the people around the Marble that have
contributed to Marble.
.. And You! :­)

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