Difference between revisions of "Talk:Specification:Geographic Report"

Revision as of 12:18, 2 April 2007

MARBLE seems to use the KDE lacks a generic widget that can be used to display geographical maps.

Initial support for Google Earth KML files is there already, so it's possible to display placemarks easily.
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, OpenStreetMap data can be used freely under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license

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 [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2412 MARBLE] seems to use the
 ''KDE lacks a generic widget that can be used to display geographical maps.''
+* Initial support for Google Earth KML files is there already, so it's possible to display placemarks easily.
 * 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