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++
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 MeeGo / Maemo
Compiling on Mac OS

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 MeeGo / Maemo
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

Translation

Map Translation
UI 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:

File Management
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

Tile Download

Documentation

How to customize maps
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:

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