Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-22 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Inge Wallin wrote: 3. Marble is not only an application, it's also an embeddable widget that you can use in other applications. So if you want to show some OSM in any application, use the marble widget and you're done. Phantastic work, Inge and others, thanks. Just as a piece of

[OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Matt Williams
Greetings all, On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM integration into Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble). I'll let him explain it since he knows it best: The hero of the current Marble KDE 4.1 Beta1 release is Jens-Michael Hoffmann: He has successfully worked on

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Inge Wallin
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: Greetings all, On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM integration into Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble). I'll let him explain it since he knows it best: The hero of the current Marble KDE 4.1 Beta1 release

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inge Wallin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM integration into Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble). I'll let him explain it since he knows it

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Inge Wallin wrote: 2. Marble is fully plugin-based, so anybody who knows some C++, can create a simple editor á la potlatch. Absolutely - those 7000 lines of code just write themselves. It's kind of the next step after Hello world. (That said, the Marble screenshots look lovely - nice

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Matt Williams
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inge Wallin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM integration into Marble

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Inge Wallin
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 17:17:52 Richard Fairhurst wrote: Inge Wallin wrote: 2. Marble is fully plugin-based, so anybody who knows some C++, can create a simple editor á la potlatch. Absolutely - those 7000 lines of code just write themselves. It's kind of the next step after Hello world.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: It is nice. Unfortunately the need to warp the tiles onto the globe means that there is a significant reduction in quality over the web based version. Under the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Matt Williams
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:03:22 Inge Wallin wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: Greetings all, On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM integration into Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble). I'll let him explain it since he knows it

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Inge Wallin
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 17:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inge Wallin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM integration into Marble

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inge Wallin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2008 17:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: Well Y! would be hard as you would have to embed a web browser or something as you can only access the images via Javascript or Flash. Really? How can they

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Ludwig
There was once a project called gaia which had re-engineered access to Google Earth data. They got a fairly unpleasant, but justified, letter from Google to cease and desist. ( http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/11/gaia-open-source-google-earth.html ). It would be wise to clear this with Yahoo

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Lauri Hahne
2008/5/21 Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: It is nice. Unfortunately the need to warp the tiles onto the globe means that there is a significant reduction in