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

[Matt Williams]

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 11:26:53 Artem Pavlenko 
<artem.mapnik at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> > 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.
>
> Hmm... I compiled 0.6 from source and there's no 'Download New Data..'

The version currently in SVN is 0.5 (i.e. there is no 0.6) and talking to 
someone who compiled it from a checkout thismorning, the menu item should be 
there. Are you getting the code from SVN or from source packages from 
somewhere?

When compiling Marble, you can choose to either compile the plain Qt4 version 
or the version that uses the KDE4 libraries. Apparently, the Qt version 
doesn't have the 'Download New Data..' link so if you want that, you'll need 
to build the KDE version. To do that, you should follow the "Build Marble as 
a KDE application" instructions from http://edu.kde.org/marble/obtain.php 
(and of course, you'll need the KDE4 libraries)

Matt

> Artem
>
> > 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
> >
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