Marble - Desktop Globe
Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth.
Features
- You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads
- A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article
- You can measure distances between locations
- It offers different thematic maps: A classroom-style topographic map, a satellite view, street map, earth at night and temperature and precipitation maps. All maps include a custom map key, so it can also be used as an educational tool for use in class-rooms
- For educational purposes you can also change date and time and watch how the starry sky and the twilight zone on the map change
- Supports multiple projections: Choose between a Flat Map ("Plate carré"), Mercator or the Globe
- Promotes the usage of free maps
Developed By
Authors:
- Torsten Rahn <rahn@kde.org>
Core Developer and Original Author - Patrick Spendrin <pspendrin@gmail.com>
Core Developer: KML and Windows support - Jens-Michael Hoffmann <jmho@c-xx.com>
OpenStreetMap Integration, OSM Namefinder, Download Management
http://www.c-xx.com - Henry de Valence <hdevalence@gmail.com>
Core Developer: Marble Runners, World-Clock Plasmoid - Bastian Holst <bastianholst@gmx.de>
Online Services support - Pino Toscano <pino@kde.org>
Network plugins - Harshit Jain <sonu.itbhu@googlemail.com>
Planet filter - Simon Edwards <simon@simonzone.com>
Marble Python Bindings - Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
Navigator Float Item - Magnus Valle
Historical Maps - Médéric Boquien <mboquien@free.fr>
Astronomical Observatories - Eckhart Wörner <kde@ewsoftware.de>
Bugfixes - Andrew Manson <g.real.ate@gmail.com>
Google Summer of Code 2009 Project: OSM Annotation - Bastian Holst <bastianholst@gmx.de>
Google Summer of Code 2009 Project: Online Services - Patrick Spendrin <pspendrin@gmail.com>
Google Summer of Code 2008 Project: Vector Tiles for Marble - Shashank Singh <shashank.personal@gmail.com>
Google Summer of Code 2008 Project: Panoramio / Wikipedia -photo support for Marble - Carlos Licea
Google Summer of Code 2007 Project: Equirectangular Projection ("Flat Map" - Andrew Manson <g.real.ate@gmail.com>
Google Summer of Code 2007 Project: GPS Support for Marble - Murad Tagirov <tmurad@gmail.com>
Google Summer of Code 2007 Project: KML Support for Marble - Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se>
Core Developer and Co-Maintainer - Simon Schmeisser
Development & Patches - Claudiu Covaci
Development & Patches - David Roberts
Development & Patches - Nikolas Zimmermann
Development & Patches - Jan Becker
Development & Patches - Stefan Asserhäll
Development & Patches - Laurent Montel
Development & Patches - Prashanth Udupa
Development & Patches - Anne-Marie Mahfouf
Development & Patches - Josef Spillner
Development & Patches - Frerich Raabe
Development & Patches - Frederik Gladhorn
Development & Patches - Fredrik Höglund
Development & Patches - Albert Astals Cid
Development & Patches - Thomas Zander
Development & Patches - Joseph Wenninger
Development & Patches - Kris Thomsen
Development & Patches - Daniel Molkentin
Development & Patches - Tim Sutton
Platforms & Distributions - Christian Ehrlicher
Platforms & Distributions - Ralf Habacker
Platforms & Distributions - Steffen Joeris
Platforms & Distributions - Marcus Czeslinski
Platforms & Distributions - Marcus D. Hanwell
Platforms & Distributions - Chitlesh Goorah
Platforms & Distributions - Nuno Pinheiro
Artwork - Torsten Rahn
Artwork
Thanks To:
- Luis Silva
Various Suggestions & Testing - Stefan Jordan
Various Suggestions & Testing - Robert Scott
Various Suggestions & Testing - Lubos Petrovic
Various Suggestions & Testing - Benoit Sigoure
Various Suggestions & Testing - Martin Konold
Various Suggestions & Testing - Matthias Welwarsky
Various Suggestions & Testing - Rainer Endres
Various Suggestions & Testing - Ralf Gesellensetter
Various Suggestions & Testing - Tim Alder
Various Suggestions & Testing - John Layt
Special thanks for providing an important source of inspiration by creating Marble's predecessor "Kartographer".
License
Marble is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License, version 2.

