[OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

Matt Williams lists at milliams.com
Wed May 21 16:50:35 BST 2008


On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:03:22 Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM
> > integration into Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble). I'll let him explain
> > it since he knows it best:
> >
> > "The hero of the current Marble KDE 4.1 Beta1 release is Jens-Michael
> > Hoffmann: He has successfully worked on getting OpenStreetMap integrated
> > into Marble and KDE 4.1!
> >
> > This means that once you start our free software virtual globe and
> > select "OpenStreetMap" as a theme then Marble will directly start to
> > download OpenStreetMap tiles from the OpenStreetMap server"
> >
> > For all the information including screenshots, check out the full article
> > at http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3475.
>
> As one of the maintainers of Marble and a contributor to OSM, let me add a
> few things:
>
> 1. This example really shows why I dislike web applications.  Marble is
> much much faster in displaying the map, especially when you go back to
> previously visited parts, and zoom in or out.
>
> 2. Marble is fully plugin-based, so anybody who knows some C++, can create
> a simple editor á la potlatch. Overlays using e.g. yahoo images should be
> fairly easy. A real editor more complex, but not overly so. Then, on the
> other hand, maybe already Merkaartor is that...

I think there's something to be said for Merkaartor and Marble being used 
together. Could be a powerful combination.

Regards,
Matt Williams
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