[OSM-talk] OSM gets mentioned in KDE4 keynote speech at Google Headquarters

[Matt Williams]

On Monday 21 January 2008 15:20:41 Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2008 10:56 AM, Matt Williams <lists at milliams.com> wrote:
> > Marble already has the ability to download a set of low quality Mapnik
> > tiles (about z=8 or something I guess).
>
> Is this just on development versions? I'm running Marble 0.4.0 here,
> but can't figure out if it can do what you say.
>
> Andy

I'm on version 0.5 and I get the data by going to "File -> Download New 
Data..." and installing the Mapnik tiles. They can then be used by 
chosing "OSM Mapnik" in the "Map View" sidebar.

From what I remember, this was only added very soon before the release of KDE 
4.0.0 so I guess that it may only be available in Marble 0.5. If you compiled 
from source, it's easy to update. Otherwise, I guess you can wait for a 
distro update.

If you want to talk to the developer's directly, you can find them (tackat or 
ingwa) on the kde-edu at kde.org mailing list or in the #kde-edu channel on 
irc.freenode.net

Matt