Marble
Marble is a small interactive virtual globe and world atlas
that you can use to
learn more about Earth: Just like a real atlas or a
conventional globe Marble allows you to freely move across its map and
lookup places. Furthermore Marble allows you to zoom in and have many
different views on the surface of the Earth A
mouse click on a place label will provide the
respective Wikipedia article.
Marble is intended to be very flexible; beyond its
cross-platform design, the core components can easily be integrated
into other programs.
Features include:
- 11 different views:
- Atlas
- OpenStreetMap
- Satellite View
- Earth at Night
- Historical Map 1689
- Moon
- Plain Map
- Precipitation (July)
- Precipitation (December)
- Temperature (July)
- Temperature (December)
- Uses a minimal free
dataset that can be used offline
- Uses
Arthur as a 2D painting backend. Depending on hardware and the
maps being displayed framerate is approximately 5-20 fps
- Uses vector as well as bitmap data: Currently it uses the
MWDB II data combined with SRTM
- Different Projections: Globe, Flat Map, Mercator
- Uses KML-Import to display places (Google Earths open
format to store placemarks), Basic GPX support
- More than 12,000 locations (cities, mountains, volcanoes)
which can be searched for. Highest Mountains of each continent.
Automatic Placemark label placement
- Sun Shading, Real-Time Clouds
- Dynamic Coordinate Grid
- Measure Tool
- Route planning capabilities
- Navigation mode called MarbleToGo
- Basic Wikipedia integration
- Starry Sky Plugins
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