Marble

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About Marble

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

Marble Runner

Coordinate Runner
OSM Runner
Runner HOWTO

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.
Reference: How to customize maps
Global Palaeogeography
How to change the PNT files used by Marble
Marble's Secrets
How to use the Proxy

Maps

OSM Vector Map

How to compile Marble with vector support
How to build tiles

Routing

Implementation of Online-Routing
Installation of Marble and Gosmore on Maemo