Marble

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Marble is a powerful virtual globe and world map. It is part of the KDE Education Project.

For a short introduction into Marble you might want to have a look at the slides of our presentation about Marble at Akademy / GCDS 2009.

There's also a YouTube-video of the first 10 minutes available. The full video can be downloaded here.

Features

• You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads
• A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article
• You can measure distances between locations
• It offers different thematic maps: A classroom-style topographic map, a satellite view, street map, earth at night and temperature and precipitation maps. All maps include a custom map key, so it can also be used as an educational tool for use in class-rooms
• For educational purposes you can also change date and time and watch how the starry sky and the twilight zone on the map change
• Supports multiple projections: Choose between a Flat Map ("Plate carré"), Mercator or the Globe
• Promotes the usage of free maps

Screenshots

Streetmap of Linköping in Sweden

Tutorials

• Map Theme Configuration
• Using Bookmarks

Maemo (Marble for Nokia N900)

• Installing Marble on a Nokia N900 (obsolete)
• Setting up Offline Routing on a Nokia N900 (obsolete)
• Route Planning and Guidance Mode on a Nokia N900 (obsolete)
• GPS Tracking (obsolete)
• Using Bookmarks (obsolete)
• Searching Places (obsolete)

More Information

• Marble website
• Marble Handbook
• Wikipedia