[Marble-devel] Marbel on Windows

[Sylvain Paré]

effectively I saw that too.
and I that some path, linux/windows, should be reviewed.
those christophe's path but inclued path and or installation paths..
I should be more precise.. but I am not at my place atm so ...

CU


2010/6/29 Christophe Leske <info at multimedial.de>

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