Marble/MeeGo

Developed by Daniel Marth during Google Summer of Code 2011. User interface ideas (under development): On startup a "home screen" is shown that lines up a couple of possible activities. Each activity is represented by its name and an icon, aligned in a grid. Selecting any activity brings the user to the main screen. The main screen adjusts itself to the chosen activity and provides a way to go back to the home screen and related activities. Most activities display a map (MarbleWidget) as the main widget, but that's not always the case (e.g. during configuration).

Activities

Planned activities are as follows:

• Virtual Globe
  • Activates spherical projection, a satellite map.
  • Easy way to switch to other map themes.
  • Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin.
  • Distance measuring should be possible.
• Routing
  • route planning for motorcar, bike, pedestrian
  • OSM map, merkator projection.
  • Related activities: Guidance
• Guidance
  • Voice guidance during a journey.
  • Precedence: Known route.
  • OSM map, merkator projection.
  • Related activities: Drive, Cycle, Walk
• Search
  • Textual search for cities, addresses, POIs, ...
  • Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin
  • Related activities: Bookmarks, Around Me
• Bookmarks
  • Access to the bookmarks
  • Related activities: Search, Around Me
• Around Me
  • Activates merkator projection, OSM map, GPS.
  • Searches for POIs and displays them. Search area: Around GPS position if known, current viewport otherwise
  • Optional category filtering.
  • Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin
  • Related activities: Search, Bookmarks
• Weather
  • Activates spherical projection, a satellite map and the weather plugin
• Tracking
  • Activates merkator projection, OSM map, GPS
  • GPS track is automatically recorded.
• Geocaching
  • Activates merkator projection and OSM map
  • Activates GPS and the opencaching plugin.
  • Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin
  • Related activities: Biking, Walking
• Friends
  • Activates the open desktop plugin (needs to be extended: at least login and).
  • Possibly other future plugins (e.g. google latitude)
• Download
  • Download of map tiles, offline maps, voice guidance speakers etc for offline usage
• Configuration
  • Tweak various settings

Roadmap

Marble Touch for MeeGo 1.3, to be released with KDE 4.8. Supported activities are

• Virtual Globe
• Routing
• Search
• Weather
• Tracking
• Friends

The following features will be missing in this release:

• Bookmark access (general)
• Legend display
• Download of offline maps, speakers
• Guidance mode

Marble Touch for MeeGo 1.4, to be released with KDE 4.9 or earlier (not aligned with KDE releases). Features of 1.3 plus the missing features from above.