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 best: > > > > "The hero of the current Marble KDE 4.1 Beta1 release is Jens-Michael > > Hoffmann: He has successfully worked on getting OpenStreetMap integrated > > into Marble and KDE 4.1! > > > > This means that once you start our free software virtual globe and > > select "OpenStreetMap" as a theme then Marble will directly start to > > download OpenStreetMap tiles from the OpenStreetMap server" > > > > For all the information including screenshots, check out the full article > > at http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3475. > > As one of the maintainers of Marble and a contributor to OSM, let me add a > few things: > > 1. This example really shows why I dislike web applications. Marble is > much much faster in displaying the map, especially when you go back to > previously visited parts, and zoom in or out. > > 2. Marble is fully plugin-based, so anybody who knows some C++, can create > a simple editor รก la potlatch. Overlays using e.g. yahoo images should be > fairly easy. A real editor more complex, but not overly so. Then, on the > other hand, maybe already Merkaartor is that...
I think there's something to be said for Merkaartor and Marble being used together. Could be a powerful combination. Regards, Matt Williams
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