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==Aternatives ?==
[http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2412 MARBLE] seems to use the
''KDE lacks a generic widget that can be used to display geographical maps.''
* Marble uses a minimal free dataset that can be used offline. Currently the total amount of data that is meant to be shipped is about 5 MB.
* Marble runs decently without hardware acceleration. It just uses Arthur as a painting backend and does NOT use OpenGL 
* Marble should start up almost instantly. Currently it "cold" starts fully within 2-5 seconds. On each subsequent start it takes about one second.

Also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page OpenStreetMap] data can be used freely under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license