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++

Intro

Hello World

Changing basic map properties

Creating a window with controls

GeoData

Displaying GeoData Documents

Online Services

Creating new Online Services

Routing

Basic Routing

Runners

Searching for Points of Interest

Reverse Geocoding

Parsing Files

GeoPainter

Painting onto the map

Drawing in Custom Layers

Painting LineString

With Python

Intro

Installing Marble's Python bindings

Hello World

Changing basic map properties

Creating a window with controls

Loading Files

Loading KML files into Marble

Loading OSM files into Marble

GeoData

Display GeoData Placemark

Vehicle Tracking

Routing/Runners

This part of the Python API has not yet been ported and the tutorials could not be completed. see this bug for more info.

GeoPainter

Painting onto the map

Drawing in Custom Layers

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

Compiling for Android

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

Programming Coordination

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

Marble 2.0 (Long-term goals for a future Marble version)

TODO list

Maemo specific TODO list

Google Summer of Code / ESA SoCIS

Gsoc Students projects 2010

Use of git(orious) for GSOC

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

List of possible Online Services

Projections

Winkel III

Robinson projection

A little overview of map projections

Tile Download

Vector Tiling Proposal

Tile Download

Documentation

Creating Custom Marble Map Themes

How to integrate OSM "slippy" maps into Marble

How to create Historical Map Themes

How to create maps for other planets, moons etc.

Upload to our KDE server

Reference: How to customize maps

Global Palaeogeography

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:

• Tiled map of the classical world see the authors blog for details
• 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.

OSM Vector Map

How to compile Marble with vector support

How to build tiles

Goals of the Vector OSM map

Natural Earth Derived Zoom Levels

Satellite Map theme based on Sentinel 2 data

Satellite Map based on Sentinel 2 Data

Creating the Bathymetry for the Sentinel 2 Satellite map

Natural Earth Vector Map

A proposal to use the Natural Earth vector map (outdated)

Routing

Implementation of Online-Routing

Installation of Marble and Gosmore on Maemo

Routing Roadmap

Routing Instructions

Meetings

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

Marble Weekend Sprint, Nov. 5-7