The Answer To “Google Earth”, Universe And Everything Else

No It's Not 42 ;)

It's MarbleMarble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. Get wikipedia Articles of places of interest , Plan Your Journey using detailed Maps .

In opposite to other virtual globes Marble also features multiple projections: Choose between a Flat Map ("Plate carré"), Mercator or the Globe.

The best of all: Marble is Free Software / Open Source Software and promotes the usage of free maps. And it's available for all major operating systems (Linux/Unix, MS Windows and Mac OS X).

Marble and Geo Content

Wikipedia Defines GeoContent as “It's is an abbreviation of geographic content. Geo-content is information that is valuable to a

specific audience based on their location, and is generated by integrating data stored in a

Geographic Information System (GIS) database with data stored in a non-spatial database”

Geo-Content

●Open Content●Closed Content

Open-Content

●Geo Rss & KML●Wikipedia●NASA Blue Marble●Open Street Map

Closed Geo-Content

●Panoramio●Twitter●Social Networks

Demo

Panoramio

Twitter

Identi.ca

Features of Marble Widget

●Marble uses a decent minimal free dataset that can be used offline ( 10 MB )

●Download data from the internet on demand,Wikipedia integration, OpenStreetMap

●Runs well without hardware acceleration (no●OpenGL so far)●No dependency except for Qt4.3●Startup time about 25 secs, fast

marbledevel@kde.orgIRC: #kdeeduon irc.freenode.orghttp://edu.kde.org/marble Special Thanks to Torsten Rahn , inge wallin & Patrick Spendrin for helping me :)

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