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 knows it best: >> >> "The hero of the current Marble KDE 4.1 Beta1 release is Jens-Michael >> Hoffmann: He has successfully worked on getting OpenStreetMap integrated >> into Marble and KDE 4.1! >> >> This means that once you start our free software virtual globe and >> select "OpenStreetMap" as a theme then Marble will directly start to >> download OpenStreetMap tiles from the OpenStreetMap server" >> >> For all the information including screenshots, check out the full article >> at http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3475. > > As one of the maintainers of Marble and a contributor to OSM, let me add a > few > things: > > 1. This example really shows why I dislike web applications. Marble is much > much faster in displaying the map, especially when you go back to previously > visited parts, and zoom in or out. 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. > 2. Marble is fully plugin-based, so anybody who knows some C++, can create a > simple editor รก la potlatch. Overlays using e.g. yahoo images should be > fairly easy. A real editor more complex, but not overly so. Then, on the > other hand, maybe already Merkaartor is that... 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. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk