The development of the Marble virtual globe KDE alternative to Google Earth
In this article we analyze Marble, developed by the KDE project can provide a viable free alternative to Google Earth.
Marble in KDE
In this article we analyze Marble, developed by the KDE project can provide a viable free alternative to Google Earth.
Marble in KDE
Among the many applications developed by the KDE team are also Marble, a display of maps open source multi-platform program designed to provide a viable free alternative to Google Earth. As for most of the applications developed by developer KDE, Marble is a project created to be very flexible with the possibility to interact with other applications of the desktop environment “K” (example interacting with digiKam for geolocation of images) with the possibility to include and create new maps via a dedicated manager (menu File -> Download maps or Create a new map).
Mable is based on the free maps of OpenStreetMap allowing you to create paths, find the fastest route, the distance between two locations etc, to note the possibility of having information on each individual city / country such as timezone, elevation, population and (if available) the related page on Wikipedia.
In addition to the road map, Marble default map based on satellite images from NASA, the atlas, political map, night, simple, historic (1689) rainfall and temperatures of the last few months as we add at a later date maps “Natural Earth, “Cycle Map, various historical maps and maps of various celestial bodies such as Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, etc..
The development of the virtual globe Marble is making KDE more and more complete and functional, note also the version for mobile devices with Maemo / MeeGo such as Nokia N900, N950 and N9, currently we do not know if it will or not is also a version for Android.
Although developed for KDE, we can install Marble in any desktop environment like Unity, Gnome Shell, XFCE, LXDE, Cinnamon, etc. Mate.
To install Marble in Debian, Ubuntu and just type in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install marbleTo install Fedora in Marble:
sudo yum install marbleTo install in Marble Arch Linux, Manjaro, Chakra etc. just type:
sudo pacman-S kdeedu-marbleMarble is also available for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac.
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