Marble

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Hot topics

Marble Maps 1.0 (Android)

Testing Vector OSM

About Marble

Devices and Use Cases

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 Maemo

Compiling on MeeGo

Compiling for Plasma Active

Compiling on Mac OS

Compiling for Android

Setting up QtCreator for Marble Development

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 Maemo

Packaging for MeeGo

Packaging for Mac

Programming Coordination

Here are a few links to various issues we are working on:

Marble 2.0 (Long-term goals for a future Marble version)

TODO list

Maemo specific TODO list

Google Summer of Code / ESA SoCIS

Gsoc Students projects 2010

Use of git(orious) for GSOC

GSoC Students' projects 2011

ESA SoCIS 2011 ideas

GSoC Students' projects 2012

Translation

Map Translation

UI Translation

GeoDataCoordinates 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:

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

Online Services

List of possible Online Services

Routing

Routing Roadmap

Routing Instructions

Projections

Winkel III

Robinson projection

A little overview of map projections

Tiles

Vector Tiling Proposal

Tile Download

Upload to our KDE server

GeoClue / GPS

GeoClue support in Marble

XDG Base Directory Specification

XDG Base Directory Specification

Mapping Coordination

Possible maps we could use:

• Tiled map of the classical world see the authors blog for details
• TrueMarble Global 250m images
• OnEarth NASA satellite images
• ZoomIt! (in parts proprietary)
• NOAA Science on a Sphere
• Olsen Time Zone map in Shapefile format. Public Domain. Scripted to generate from current tz file.

OSM Vector Map

Goals of the Vector OSM map

Natural Earth Derived Zoom Levels

Satellite Map theme based on Sentinel 2 data

Satellite Map based on Sentinel 2 Data

Creating the Bathymetry for the Sentinel 2 Satellite map

Natural Earth Vector Map

A proposal to use the Natural Earth vector map (outdated)

Tools for Marble

Here are some tools and checks that are performed on marble code:

Marble Open Bugs

Phabricator

Review Board (superceded by Phabricator)

API Docs of libmarblewidget (master branch)

APIDOX reports

Krazy reports

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:

Marble Weekend Sprint, Nov. 5-7 2010

Marble sprint 2012

• Minutes of Saturday

Other

Marble Technical pages