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Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan...

Marble

Marble Reviews and Details

This page is designed to help you find out whether Marble is good and if it is the right choice for you.

Screenshots and images

  • Marble Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-10-29

Features & Specs

  1. Open Source

    Marble is released under the LGPL, making it free to use, modify, and distribute. This allows for community contributions and continuous improvement.

  2. Cross-Platform

    Marble is available on multiple platforms including Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, ensuring broad accessibility.

  3. Lightweight

    Despite its rich features, Marble is known for being resource-efficient, making it suitable for devices with limited hardware capabilities.

  4. Customizability

    Marble offers extensive customization options, from different map themes to plugins, allowing users to tailor the application to their needs.

  5. Educational Tools

    With features like historical maps and real-time weather updates, Marble provides valuable educational resources for both students and teachers.

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Shadow Storm & Fantasy Brown Hard Marble Test & Review

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Social recommendations and mentions

We have tracked the following product recommendations or mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you see what people think about Marble and what they use it for.
  • OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles
    Https://marble.kde.org/ has had their own implementation of a streaming vectorOSM layer for nine years and I was eagerly waiting for something akin to materialize in other OSM map applications for quite a while.. Downloading hundreds of megs of map data in big whole-country chunks always was a space issue in android OSM apps. Very glad a standard is finally being established and looking forward to it getting... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • I honestly don't like using most Openstreetmap websites: slow, clunky. Is there a better way to do this faster on my own desktop?
    KDE Marble might be able to do it. Looks like it can open some OSM file type at least. Source: about 3 years ago
  • Are there any Foss globe apps?
    Marble. It's a KDE app, and it looks very similar to the Google Earth app. Source: about 4 years ago
  • Seeking recommendation: best GIS for viewing KML streamed from external data sources
    The system is intended to receive streaming data with different sensitivity labels and automatically create views/layers that the user is authorized to access. I'm leaning toward a customized version of KDE Marble (https://marble.kde.org/), which makes sense because it's open source and I'm going to need to make it PitBull-aware with the PitBull SDK. But I can still decide at this point between Marble and... Source: over 4 years ago
  • Does "provide touch id to install" mean any amount of signature checking is skipped?
    For folks who don't want to click a link that just randomly starts downloading installers: https://marble.kde.org/. Source: almost 5 years ago
  • Does "provide touch id to install" mean any amount of signature checking is skipped?
    I'll reveal that it was "Marble". I thought signing was a thing outside of the Apple store too. I.E. a package can _come with_ a signature or not, even when downloaded outside of the Apple store. I've whitelist installs with the "this one is not signed" intervention in System Preferences. I've also had off-store downloads that did not require that intervention. I believe in the latter case they are signed. Source: almost 5 years ago
  • Are there any good tools to view the .pbf files from Planet OSM offline?
    Not PBF but KDE Marble can display OSM XML directly. But it's quite slow. The other option is to download the PBF and render tiles from it which it can then display. Source: almost 5 years ago
  • Different map projections?
    You can use the Marble globe app https://marble.kde.org. Source: almost 5 years ago

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