Marble/Devices and Use Cases: Difference between revisions

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This table shows the importance of certain use cases on different device form factors. See the sections below for an explanation of the use cases and device form factors. The importance is separated into three different levels: Main for primary features, Relevant for useful, but not essential features and Subsidiary for features that are rarely needed or do not apply to a certain device form factor.

Use case	Desktop	Smartphone	Tablet	TV	Vehicle	Plane
Exploration	Main	Relevant	Main	Main	Subsidiary	Subsidiary
Measuring	Relevant	Subsidiary	Relevant	Relevant	Subsidiary	Subsidiary
Search	Main	Relevant	Main	Relevant	Relevant	Subsidiary
GPS Tracking	Subsidiary	Main	Relevant	Subsidiary	Main	Main
Route Planning	Relevant	Main	Main	Relevant	Main	Subsidiary
Guidance Mode	Subsidiary	Main	Relevant	Subsidiary	Main	Subsidiary
Offline Usage	Subsidiary	Relevant	Relevant	Subsidiary	Main	Main

Device form factors

Desktop: The classical desktop computer system
Smartphone
Notebook
Tablet: Devices with about 7"-10" touchscreens and additional sensors (GPS, accelerometers)
TV: Set top boxes using a TV as display, often full-HD resolution
Vehicle: In-vehicle infotainment and "carputers" fixed to a vehicle. But not smartphones or tablets used in a vehicle for just a short period of time!
Plane: In-flight entertainment systems

Use Cases

Exploration

The user starts the Marble application to find out more about a certain region or city that interests him/her or just to explore the world. In this digital world atlas mode the spherical projection is mostly useful.

Main features include:

spherical projection
coordinate grid
overview map themes
country/city search
animated movement (jump to target)
wikipedia integration
bookmarks

Measuring

Search

GPS Tracking

Route Planning

Guidance Mode

Offline Usage

Distribution

Linux distributions
Windows
MacOS
Maemo
Meego
Android

Implementation

Marble Touch on MeeGo Smartphones

See Projects/Marble/MeeGo

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 ! Use case
 ! Desktop
+! Notebook
 ! Smartphone
 ! Tablet
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 | Exploration
 | style="background: #77b753;" | Main
+||
 | style="background: #a4c0e4;" | Relevant
 | style="background: #77b753;" | Main
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 | Measuring
 | style="background: #a4c0e4;" | Relevant
+||
 | style="background: #d3d7cf;" | Subsidiary
 | style="background: #a4c0e4;" | Relevant
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 | Search
 | style="background: #77b753;" | Main
+||
 | style="background: #a4c0e4;" | Relevant
 | style="background: #77b753;" | Main
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 | GPS Tracking
 | style="background: #d3d7cf;" | Subsidiary
+||
 | style="background: #77b753;" | Main
 | style="background: #a4c0e4;" | Relevant
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 | Route Planning
 | style="background: #a4c0e4;" | Relevant
+||
 | style="background: #77b753;" | Main
 | style="background: #77b753;" | Main
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 | Guidance Mode
 | style="background: #d3d7cf;" | Subsidiary
+||
 | style="background: #77b753;" | Main
 | style="background: #a4c0e4;" | Relevant
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 | Offline Usage
 | style="background: #d3d7cf;" | Subsidiary
+||
 | style="background: #a4c0e4;" | Relevant
 | style="background: #a4c0e4;" | Relevant
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 * Desktop: The classical desktop computer system
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone Smartphone]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop Notebook]
 * Tablet: Devices with about 7"-10" touchscreens and additional sensors (GPS, accelerometers)
 * TV: Set top boxes using a TV as display, often full-HD resolution
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 == Use Cases ==
-* Exploration: Description TODO
-* Measuring: Description TODO
+=== Exploration ===
-* Search: Description TODO
+The user starts the Marble application to find out more about a certain region or city that interests him/her or just to explore the world. In this digital world atlas mode the spherical projection is mostly useful.
-* GPS Tracking: Description TODO
-* Route Planning: Description TODO
+Main features include:
-* Guidance Mode: Description TODO
+* spherical projection
-* Offline Usage: Description TODO
+* coordinate grid
+* overview map themes
+* country/city search
+* animated movement (jump to target)
+* wikipedia integration
+* bookmarks
+=== Measuring ===
+=== Search ===
+=== GPS Tracking ===
+=== Route Planning ===
+=== Guidance Mode ===
+=== Offline Usage ===
 == Distribution ==
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 * Meego
 * Android
+== Implementation ==
+=== Marble Touch on MeeGo Smartphones ===
+See [[Projects/Marble/MeeGo]]