On 22 Jan 2008, at 12:59, Torsten Rahn wrote: > Seems my mail doesn't get immediately approved on OSM-talk, so > here's my > answer in private. In case of reply please CC me, as I'm not > subsribed to > OSM-talk. > >>> I'm on version 0.5 and I get the data by going to "File -> Download >>> New >>> Data..." and installing the Mapnik tiles. They can then be used by >>> chosing "OSM Mapnik" in the "Map View" sidebar. >> >> Hmm... I compiled 0.6 from source and there's no 'Download New >> Data..' >> >> Artem > > "File -> Download New Data" (DXS) > > is one of the very few features that only get enabled if you > compile the KDE > version (it's a KDE technology). While the MarbleWidget only > depends on Qt4 > you can have additional features in the menu that get supported > throught the > KDE framework if you compile it as a KDE4 application. > > So you probably compiled with -DQTONLY=ON.
Yes, I compiled on Mac :) > > The OSM data provided by DXS was only supposed to be testing data > to check > whether the feature works actually. I had long planned to pull it > from the > server and would like to replace it by better (OSM) data. > It would be great to be able to pull data from the server. But for the time being I rendered some tiles locally and it works. I wonder why geographical projection for tiles ? They look quite distorted when warped on sphere: http://artem.dev.openstreetmap.org/files/marble-osm.jpg Maybe spherical Mercator (same as in GMap) would produce better results. Great app! Look forward to hacking it properly. Best Artem > > Best wishes, > > Torsten > > -- > Torsten Rahn > > Tel.: 0 21 61 - 46 43 - 192 > > credativ GmbH, HRB Mönchengladbach 12080 > Hohenzollernstr. 133, 41061 Mönchengladbach > Geschäftsführung: Dr. Michael Meskes, Jörg Folz _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
