1. The Answer To “Google Earth”,
Universe And Everything Else

2. No It's Not 42 ;)

3. It's Marble
Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn
more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can
look up places and roads. Get wikipedia Articles of places of
interest , Plan Your Journey using detailed Maps .
In opposite to other virtual globes Marble also features multiple
projections: Choose between a Flat Map ("Plate carré"), Mercator
or the Globe.
The best of all: Marble is Free Software / Open Source Software
and promotes the usage of free maps. And it's available for all
major operating systems (Linux/Unix, MS Windows and Mac OS
X).

5. Marble and Geo Content
Wikipedia Defines GeoContent as “It's is an
abbreviation of geographic content. Geo-
content is information that is valuable to a
specific audience based on their location, and
is generated by integrating data stored in a
Geographic Information System (GIS) database
with data stored in a non-spatial database”

6. Geo-Content
● Open Content
● Closed Content

7. Open-Content
● Geo Rss & KML
● Wikipedia
● NASA Blue Marble
● Open Street Map

8. Closed Geo-Content
● Panoramio
● Twitter
● Social Networks

9. Demo

10. Panoramio

12. Twitter

14. Identi.ca

16. Features of Marble Widget
● Marble uses a decent minimal free dataset that
can be used offline ( 10 MB )
● Download data from the internet on demand,
Wikipedia integration, OpenStreetMap
● Runs well without hardware acceleration (no
● OpenGL so far)
● No dependency except for Qt4.3
● Startup time about 25 secs, fast

17. Join Us :)
marbledevel@kde.org
IRC: #kdeedu
on irc.freenode.org
http://edu.kde.org/marble
Special Thanks to Torsten Rahn , inge wallin & Patrick
Spendrin for helping me :)