effectively I saw that too.<br>and I that some path, linux/windows, should be reviewed.<br>those christophe's path but inclued path and or installation paths..<br>I should be more precise.. but I am not at my place atm so ...<br>
<br>CU<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/29 Christophe Leske <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@multimedial.de">info@multimedial.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi there,<br>
<br>
i am aware that Windows is not your primary platform, yet there are some<br>
things that should better be documented to preserve other people a lot<br>
of grief and frustration...<br>
Windows 7 and eventtually Vista introduced a new structure in the<br>
filesystem where applications could store their settings. Although<br>
already used for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 enforced more user<br>
restrictions by the means of the new UAC policy.<br>
<br>
In short, this means for Marble that you won't find things were you<br>
would expect them.<br>
<br>
As an example:<br>
usually, the marble application is being installed in<br>
<br>
C:\Program Files\marble<br>
<br>
Its cache files and other stuff may be found around it in the respective<br>
subfolders like "data/maps" and "data/placemarks", thus<br>
<br>
C:\Program Files\marble\data\maps<br>
C:\Program Files\marble\data\placemarks<br>
... etc.<br>
<br>
I worked on creating tiles for Marble based on the NaturalEarth map set<br>
offered at <a href="http://www.naturalearth.com" target="_blank">http://www.naturalearth.com</a>. I wrote myself a tile cutting<br>
application (not ready for prime time, but if anyone is interested, i am<br>
willing to share), which creates the different levels for a given map.<br>
Accordingg to Torsten Rahn's blog, you can simply install a so-called<br>
"installmap" which is a huge bitmap of the map to be used, which you<br>
specify in the DGML file, and Marble is ought to create the possible<br>
levels from it (=<a href="http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3269" target="_blank">http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3269</a>)<br>
<br>
<br>
Problem is that the newly created tiles for the levels are not appearing<br>
where I would expect them, namely in<br>
<br>
"C:\Program Files\marble\data\maps\earth\NaturalEarth" for example. So I<br>
thought the feature was broken, yet the map did appear in Marble.<br>
<br>
The issue is that the application directory on Windows now has<br>
administrator rights so that the application cannot write to it. What it<br>
does instead is to create the maps in<br>
<br>
"C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\.marble"<br>
(for Vista and Windows 7 that should be)<br>
<br>
<br>
Same applies for the citieplacemarks.cache file, which I wanted to<br>
extend with new entries (by the way, anyone up for the format of<br>
"cities.txt"? I see that it is probably a tab delimited file with<br>
entries for original name, plus additional names, plus links to<br>
wikipedia and so on?).<br>
Again according to postings from Torsten on this list and files in the<br>
SVN, Marble should be able to recreate the "citiesplacemarks.cache" file<br>
(which is a QStream file of the KML?) by just getting a new KML file.<br>
<br>
So if you would be to extend the cities.txt file, you would delete the<br>
old "citiesplacemarks.cache", recreate a new KML file using the asc2kml<br>
file (or create a new KML manually), and let marble do the rest.<br>
This also seemed to fail, until today I found that there is also a<br>
directory for this being created, which is ...<br>
<br>
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\.marble\data\placemarks<br>
<br>
Unless you delete the cache file in there AND in the marble install<br>
directory (C:\Program Files\marble\data\placemarks), you won't be able<br>
to recreate a new city-database for use in Marble.<br>
<br>
<br>
In short:<br>
the features do work both, tile creation as well as cache file<br>
regeneration, the files are just in new and somewhat weird places and<br>
may get overshadowed by already installed files in the original location.<br>
There might still be a bug in cutting the tiles from an installmap in<br>
marble though, it creates one level less than it could according to the<br>
size of the map...<br>
<br>
If anyone is interested in getting the tileset for the NaturalEarth map,<br>
please let me know and I will put it up. I have individual tiles up to<br>
level 3 though created by my tool, the tiles created by Marble itself<br>
are not optimal due to the bug described above.<br>
<br>
Greets,<br>
<br>
Christophe Leske<br>
<a href="http://multimedial.de" target="_blank">multimedial.de</a><br>
<br>
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