Marble

About Marble

Devices and Use Cases

Marble FAQ

Success Stories: 3rd party applications using the Marble Library

Software that makes use of Marble

Tutorials: How to use the Marble Widget in your application

with Qt Designer

On Windows, with Qt Creator/Qt Designer

With C++

Hello World

Changing basic map properties

Creating a window with controls

Painting onto the map

Drawing in Custom Layers

Basic Routing

Searching for Points of Interest

Reverse Geocoding

Parsing Files

Painting LineString

Displaying GeoData Documents

with Python

via a shell script

How to become a Marble developer ("Marblehead")

So you are new to Marble development ...

Welcome!

Here you'll get all the information you need to start Marble development:

How to become a Marble Developer

Compiling Marble

Compiling on Linux

Compiling on Windows

Compiling on Maemo

Compiling on MeeGo

Compiling for Plasma Active

Compiling on Mac OS

Setting up QtCreator for Marble Development

Packaging Marble

New Marble Modules (future packaging advice)

Here is some advice about how packaging is supposed to happen on the various platforms that are supported.

Packaging for Linux

Packaging for Windows

Packaging for Maemo

Packaging for MeeGo

Packaging for Mac

Tools for Marble

Here are some tools and checks that are performed on marble code:

Marble Open Bugs

Review Board

API Docs (KDE Trunk)

APIDOX reports

Krazy reports

Programming Coordination

Here are a few links to various issues we are working on:

Gsoc Students projects 2010

Use of git(orious) for GSOC

TODO list

Maemo specific TODO list

GSoC Students' projects 2011

ESA SoCIS 2011 ideas

GSoC Students' projects 2012

Translation

Map Translation

UI Translation

GeoDataCoordinates Translation

User Interface

Mockups

Icon Status

Texture Mapping

Texture Mapping

GeoData Library / KML

The base classes to manipulate geographic data

GeoData Presentation

Use cases for GeoData classes

GeoData API Description

Parsing GeoData

Writing GeoData

Pointer vs. Implicit Share

KML Status

GPX Status

Using GeoData:

Placemarks Management

Review of Model-View use in marble

Geo Graphics View

Overview of the GeoGraphicsView

Interaction between GeoData and GeoGraphicsView

GeoPainter / DGML

GeoPainter

DGML

Plugin Interfaces

Plugin interfaces

Marble Runner

Coordinate Runner

OSM Runner

Runner HOWTO

Online Services

Creating new Online Services

List of possible Online Services

Projections

Winkel III

Robinson projection

A little overview of map projections

Tile Download

Vector Tiling Proposal

Tile Download

Documentation

How to customize maps

How to change the PNT files used by Marble

Marble's Secrets

How to use the Proxy

GeoClue / GPS

GeoClue support in Marble

XDG Base Directory Specification

XDG Base Directory Specification

Mapping Coordination

Possible maps we could use:

• TrueMarble Global 250m images
• OnEarth NASA satellite images
• ZoomIt! (in parts proprietary)
• NOAA Science on a Sphere
• Olsen Time Zone map in Shapefile format. Public Domain. Scripted to generate from current tz file.

Natural Earth Vector Map

A proposal to use the Natural Earth vector map

Documentation

How to create Historical Maps

How to create Custom Maps

Global Palaeogeography

Routing

Implementation of Online-Routing

Installation of Marble and Gosmore on Maemo

Routing Roadmap

Routing Instructions

valgrind

if you want to fix memory leaks, you can run valgrind with:

valgrind --leak-check=full --track-origins=yes --num-callers=30 marble 2>&1 | tee MARBLE_MEMCHECK

Meetings

Summaries and logs of scheduled Marble meetings can be found on the following pages:

Wednesday Nov. 10th, 2008

Marble Weekend Sprint, Nov. 5-7