[OSM-talk] Openstretmap and Koffice at the LinuxTag

[Jon Burgess]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:11 +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> 
> > Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2007 13:27:20 schrieben Sie:
> > > Talking of KDE apps, I wonder if anyone has looked to see if Marble
> > > could use OSM data? http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/551
> > 
> > Yes this was one of our other interesting contacts. We discussed with the 
> > marble guy that a connection between marble and osm would be usefull.
> 
> My friend Inge Wallin, KDE / KOffice developer, is co-mentor (with 
> Torsten Rahn) for a Google Summer of Code project to this aim,
> 
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Ideas#MARBLE_-_OpenStreetMap.2C_GPS.2C_Almanac.2C_improved_KML_support
> 

I thought I'd take a quick look at getting Mapnik rendered OSM data in
Marble and got something semi-reasonable.
http://www.jburgess.uklinux.net/marble-osm2.png

Let me know if you want me to make the sources to this quick mash-up
available to you. My changes were done as a quick hack and are not in a
state to be published as-is.

	Jon