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Developed by Daniel Marth during Google Summer of Code 2011. User interface ideas (under development): On startup a "home screen" is shown that lines up a couple of possible activities. Each activity is represented by its name and an icon, aligned in a grid. Selecting any activity brings the user to the main screen. The main screen adjusts itself to the chosen activity and provides a way to go back to the home screen and related activities. Most activities display a map (MarbleWidget) as the main widget, but that's not always the case (e.g. during configuration).
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== Activities ==
Planned activities are as follows:
* Virtual Globe
** Activates spherical projection, a satellite map.
** Easy way to switch to other map themes.
** Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin.
** Distance measuring should be possible.
* Routing
** route planning for motorcar, bike, pedestrian
** OSM map, merkator projection.
** Related activities: Guidance
* Guidance
** Voice guidance during a journey.
** Precedence: Known route.
** OSM map, merkator projection.
** Related activities: Drive, Cycle, Walk
* Search
** Textual search for cities, addresses, POIs, ...
** Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin
** Related activities: Bookmarks, Around Me
* Bookmarks
** Access to the bookmarks
** Related activities: Search, Around Me
* Around Me
** Activates merkator projection, OSM map, GPS.
** Searches for POIs and displays them. Search area: Around GPS position if known, current viewport otherwise
** Optional category filtering.
** Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin
** Related activities: Search, Bookmarks
* Weather
** Activates spherical projection, a satellite map and the weather plugin
* Tracking
** Activates merkator projection, OSM map, GPS
** GPS track is automatically recorded.
* Geocaching
** Activates merkator projection and OSM map
** Activates GPS and the opencaching plugin.
** Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin
** Related activities: Biking, Walking
* Friends
** Activates the open desktop plugin (needs to be extended: at least login and).
** Possibly other future plugins (e.g. google latitude)
* Download
** Download of map tiles, offline maps, voice guidance speakers etc for offline usage
* Configuration
** Tweak various settings
 
== Roadmap ==
Marble Touch for MeeGo 1.3, to be released with KDE 4.8.
Supported activities are
* Virtual Globe
* Search
* Routing
* Tracking
* Weather
* Friends
* Space View
 
The following features will be missing in the very first release 1.3.0:
* Bookmark access (general)
* Legend display
* Download of offline maps, speakers
* Guidance mode
 
=== Timeline ===
Releases will be aligned with the [[Schedules/KDE4/4.8_Release_Schedule|KDE release schedule]]. Minor releases will be feature releases, however. The missing features from above will be added gradually in these releases.
* 2012-01-25: Marble Touch 1.3.0
* 2012-03-06: Marble Touch 1.3.1
* 2012-04-03: Marble Touch 1.3.2
* 2012-05-01: Marble Touch 1.3.3
* 2012-06-05: Marble Touch 1.3.4

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