Marble (software)
| Marble logo | |
| Screenshot of Marble showing Europe | |
| Developer(s) | KDE |
|---|---|
| Initial release | November 2006; 18 years ago (2006-11) |
| Stable release | |
| Preview release | 1.5.0 (February 6, 2013; 12 years ago (2013年02月06日)) [±] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ (Qt) |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Windows, Android |
| Available in | Multiple languages |
| Type | Virtual globe, route planning software |
| License | GNU LGPL |
| Website | marble |
Marble is a virtual globe application which allows the user to choose among the Earth, the Moon, Venus, Mars and other planets to display as a 3-D model. It is free software under the terms of the GNU LGPL, developed by KDE for use on personal computers and smart phones.[2] It is written in C++ and uses Qt.
Marble is intended to be very flexible; beyond its cross-platform design, the core components can easily be integrated into other programs. It is designed to run without the need for hardware acceleration, but it can be extended to use OpenGL. An important user-experience objective being that the application start fairly quickly, it ships with a minimal but useful off-line dataset (5–10MB[citation needed ]).[3]
Contributors have added support for on-line mapping sources such as OpenStreetMap and the ability to interpret KML files. Marble also provides route planning capabilities.[4] A navigation mode called MarbleToGo was developed as part of Google Summer of Code 2010.[5] [6] It was later partially rewritten and renamed to Marble Touch.[2]
Geothek is a fork of Marble adding a statistics module, pixel maps, and a 3D view. It is developed and used by Austrian publisher Ed. Hölzel [de] as atlas software for classrooms.[7]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ "v24.12.0".
- ^ a b Nienhüser, Dennis. "Introducing Marble Touch". Archived from the original on 2011年11月29日.
- ^ "Chapter 1. Introduction". KDE.
- ^ Nienhüser, Dennis (2010年07月24日). "Worldwide and Offline Routing". Nienhueser.de. Archived from the original on 2010年07月29日. Retrieved 2010年10月25日.
- ^ "Show Student Project" . Retrieved 2010年10月25日.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ Srivastava, Siddharth. "GSoC: MarbleToGo (Navigation Mode)". Blogspot . Retrieved 2010年10月25日.
- ^ "A look at Geothek 1.1 Digital World Atlas". 2010年08月07日.
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