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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Marble's Secrets Part I: Behind the Scenes of Marble...
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>> | If you've ever followed KDE 4 development then you've probably heard
>> | about Marble. Marble is a virtual globe which displays the earth. So
>> | Marble can be used as a nice digital replacement for your desktop globe
>> | at home where you can look up places.
>> `----
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>> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3269
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> Unbelievable - also integrated with the data from
> http://www.openstreetmap.org - its turning into a truly global
> open source useful resource - and better than proprietory stuff
> because proprietory just can't afford to buy all the
> data needed for it from all the equity holders in the global
> maps game.
If a development community grows around this, it could mimic and surpass the
capability of KeyHole (Google Earth), but the pricey resource here is the
data. Streaming it quickly through proxies is another big challenge unless
nations start funding it, which they should (instead of throwing money at a
monopolist for iPlayer).
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