Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-22 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Inge Wallin wrote: > 3. Marble is not only an application, it's also an embeddable widget that you > can use in other applications. So if you want to show some OSM in any > application, use the marble widget and you're done. Phantastic work, Inge and others, thanks. Just as a piece of informati

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Lauri Hahne
2008/5/21 Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: > > > >> It is nice. Unfortunately the need to warp the tiles onto the globe > >> means that there is a significan

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Ludwig
There was once a project called gaia which had re-engineered access to Google Earth data. They got a fairly unpleasant, but justified, letter from Google to cease and desist. ( http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/11/gaia-open-source-google-earth.html ). It would be wise to clear this with Yahoo

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Inge Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 17:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: > > > Well Y! would be hard as you would have to embed a web browser or > > something as you can only access the images via Javascript or Flash. > > Really? How c

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Matt Williams
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:03:22 Inge Wallin wrote: > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: > > Greetings all, > > > > On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM > > integration into Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble). I'll let him explain > > it since he kn

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Inge Wallin
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 17:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Inge Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: > >> On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM > >> integration into Marble (htt

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: > >> It is nice. Unfortunately the need to warp the tiles onto the globe >> means that there is a significant reduction in quality over the web >> based version. >

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Inge Wallin
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 17:17:52 Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Inge Wallin wrote: > > 2. Marble is fully plugin-based, so anybody who knows some C++, can > > create a simple editor á la potlatch. > > Absolutely - those 7000 lines of code just write themselves. It's kind > of the next step after "Hell

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Matt Williams
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Inge Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: > >> On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM > >> integration into Marble (htt

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Inge Wallin wrote: > 2. Marble is fully plugin-based, so anybody who knows some C++, can create a > simple editor á la potlatch. Absolutely - those 7000 lines of code just write themselves. It's kind of the next step after "Hello world". (That said, the Marble screenshots look lovely - nice pr

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Inge Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: > >> On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM >> integration into Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble). I'll let him explain >> it since he

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Inge Wallin
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: > Greetings all, > > On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM > integration into Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble). I'll let him explain > it since he knows it best: > > "The hero of the current Marble KDE 4.1 Beta1 re

[OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Thread Matt Williams
Greetings all, On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM integration into Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble). I'll let him explain it since he knows it best: "The hero of the current Marble KDE 4.1 Beta1 release is Jens-Michael Hoffmann: He has successfully worked on ge