Marble is a virtual globe that allows the user to choose among the Earth, the Moon, Venus, Mars and other planets. Marble free software under the terms of the GNU LGPL, developed by KDE and the free-software / open-source communities for use on personal computers running a Qt4-compatible operating system. Its cross-platform design, the core components can easily be integrated into other programs.
It is designed to run without the need for hardware acceleration, but it can be extended to use OpenGL. An important user-experience objective being that the application start fairly quickly, it ships with a minimal but useful off-line dataset (5-10MB). Contributors have added support for on-line mapping sources such as OpenStreetMap and the ability to interpret KML files. Marble also provides route planning capabilities. A navigation mode called MarbleToGo was developed as part of Google Summer of Code 2010.
Free Download Marble Virtual Globe and World Atlas Software
Features of Marble Virtual Globe
- Easy to use and learn about geographical area.
- You can use virtual maps and Atlas for educational purposes.
- You can also measure distance between two places.
- Marble offers different style maps like a satellite view, temperature, earth at night, precipitation map, street map, Topographic map.
- You can easily zoom in and zoom out the globe.[advt]
- You can add bookmarks and download new maps and region.
- You can also create a map.
- You can also see the altitude and longitude on the globe.
- It is a virtual globe.
- You can set your home location in virtual globe.
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