KDE-edu Marble Quickstart ¶

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KDE-edu Marble Quickstart

Getting Started ¶

Click on the desktop icon in the “Navigation and Maps” folder to open Marble. You will see a window like this:

You can:

Scale the globe by rotating the wheel of your mouse. To move around press the left button of your mouse and move it.

Marble has got 11 different views:

Atlas

OpenStreetMap

Satellite View

Earth at Night

Historical Map 1689

Moon

Plain Map

Precipitation (December)

Precipitation (July)

Temperature (December)

Temperature (July).

To switch them click one of entries in “Theme” list in “Map View” tab.

Press a label in any place to view more information about it.

Close panels by clicking the cross at the top-right corner of the panel. To close all the panels press “F9” or go to “Settings->Panels->Hide All Panels”. Also you can show/hide a panel by clicking its title at the “Settings->Panels” menu.

To find a location, enter its name into the search line on the top of “Search” panel. As you start typing, suggestions below the search line will appear like this:

Use bookmarks in Marble to remember the location of something. To add a bookmark press the left button of your mouse and click “Add bookmark”. After it a window will appear like this:

Write the name, description and destination folder of the bookmark and click the “Ok” button. Then the bookmark will appear. To manage bookmarks, go to “Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks”.