[Marble-devel] Hi

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi Zak,

On Freitag 02 April 2010 18:12:04 Zebrowski, Zak wrote:
> Howdy,
> <snip>
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232907 (Marble loads map from another
> directory than KHNS3 saves them) (which is fixed)
> 
> </snip>
> 
> What's KHNS3?

In the KDE version it's the backend framework that delivers new maps in 
"Download maps".

> As an aside - hi from a lurker to this list.  I've been a user of Marble
> for a while now.  I haven't been doing development with Marble, but I'm
> happy in the way Marble is heading.   I'm planning (if I have spare time
> and I get it approved) to write / give a presentation on building base
> maps for Marble at a perl 1 day conference ( http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/ )
> in October.

Sounds cool. 

> If I do end up creating a basemap which I could share to the larger marble
> community, what licensing agreements are requirements for incorporation? 
> One of the reasons why open arial map

We usually prefer free map (free as in speech). Basically the same concerns 
apply that are raised in the licensing paragraph here:

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/HistoricalMaps

We are looking forward to your contribution ;-)
If you need help just ask on this mailing list or on IRC #marble .

> (http://www.openaerialmap.org/Main_Page ) is offline, is because they were
> unsure of the individual licenses incorporated into their data.

Right. That was one of the reasons we never used that service.

Best Regards,

Torsten

 
> Cheers,
> 
> Zak Zebrowski
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