Marble Software Maps

Calculate routes to any destination and have marble.

Marble software maps.

Torsten rahn gave a presentation about marble at state of the map 2008 making a very high res image you can simply take a screenshot of marble to get a fairly big image of an openstreetmap globe but this is limited by your screen resolution and for printing you may want a high er resolution bigger image. Google maps with gps. Calculate pedestrian bike and motorcar routes with ease online and offline with an arbitrary number of via points. Explore the neighborhood with marble s rich set of city and street level maps.

The downside of marble is that it s rather selective in the regions it covers. Marble is a geographical atlas and a virtual globe which lets you quickly explore places on our home planet. It is free software under the terms of the gnu lgpl developed by kde for use on personal computers and smart phones. You can use marble to look up addresses to easily create maps measure distances and to retrieve detail information about locations that you have just heard about in the news or on the internet.

It features a crisp beautiful map with an intuitive user interface. Search for addresses and places of interest. Marble maps brings the highly detailed openstreetmap to your mobile devices. The behaim globe is a digital reproduction of a globe crafted at the time of columbus first sea travel to the west.

These include a topographic map satellite view street map earth at night and temperature maps. Marble has therefore clearly been designed more with educators and classrooms in mind than google earth. Marble takes care of querying various search backends and presents their results in a unified view. The user interface is clean simple and easy to use.

It is written in c and uses qt. We designed the map style to resemble the osm standard tile layer while introducing more vivid colors with a responsive selection of map features. 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 features a crisp beautiful map with an intuitive user interface.