[Marble-devel] features

[Torsten Rahn]

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 17:31:09 Torsten Rahn wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2007 16:56:22 Andrew Turner wrote:
> > Wouldn't KML support address this? KML would designate a geographic
> > location (point, line, polygon, etc.), description, title, and can
> > include a link to an external resource (such as an HTML representation
> > of the location, i.e. a blog post)
> That's indeed the idea. Tim Adler from Wikipedia actually made a similar
> suggestion already to associate the most prominent from each Wikipedia

That should of course read: " That's indeed the idea. Tim Adler from Wikipedia 
actually made a similar suggestion already to associate the most prominent 
IMAGE from each Wikipedia article with the location and display it as an 
icon. The obvious idea was to solve this using the icon style support that 
Murad is working on."

That's the reason why we are using KML as the primary file format. Because we 
want to be able to for example simply generate a weather map by associating 
each city with a proper sun/cloud/rainfall icon just by assigning an 
appropriate style. The same for Wikipedia images, custom images, .... you 
name it. All done using KML as a central "protocol". And of course not only 
by reading a real file but also by letting the Widget receive a KML stream 
from the parent application or by other applications.

Torsten



> The obvious idea was to solve this using the icon style support that Murad
> is working on.
>
> Torsten
>
> > GeoRSS support would be better for news feeds (or anything with a
> > primarily time-based, updating component)
> >
> > >         -Inge
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Inge Wallin               | Thus spake the master programmer:
> > >                           |      "After three days without programming,
> > >
> > > inge at lysator.liu.se       |       life becomes meaningless."
> > >
> > >                           | Geoffrey James: The Tao of Programming.
> > >
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