[Marble-devel] Problems using Marble in a research project

[Patrick Spendrin]

Mirko Stanisak schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> first, I would like to thank you all for Marble, as standalone application, it 
> rocks hard, and as component it saved a lot of work (at least for me)!
> 
> I'm using Marble in a little application for my diploma thesis. I'm studying 
> Aerospace Engineering and I'm currently researching how to show status 
> information regarding Global Navigation Satellite Systems (e.g. GPS) on Air 
> Traffic Controllers displays (aka radar screens). For this, I've written a 
> demo application which should look like a radar screen. I used Marble for 
> this and it works quite well.
> 
> Unfortionatly, I did not manage to display an approtiate map yet. Air Traffic 
> Controllers do not need cities, but other static information like airports, 
> navaids, fixpoints ... to be displayed. Thus, I tried to create an own map. I 
> started with the "plain" map, copied it over to ~/.marble/data/maps/earth/ 
> and altered it a bit. I already managed to hide the city names, but I did not 
> succeed in displaying this "aviation data". Is there a possibility to create 
> a kml file with several airports, fixpoints etc and to include this in the 
> map?
Well, this is on our todo list. I don't want to tell you it will get 
integrated until christmas but there is hope...
> 
> My current attempt of the map file is posted over at
> 
> http://pastebin.com/m5d501105
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Mirko
regards,
Patrick


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