[Marble-devel] New to Marble

[Paul Carlisle]

Thank you; that answers all of my current questions. I downloaded the most 
recent stable version, which doesn't contain these functions. I'll grab the 
most recent version.

On Monday 29 March 2010 11:39:49 Torsten Rahn wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Sonntag 28 März 2010 20:38:10 Paul Carlisle wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I found Marble a few days ago, and have been reading up on it, as well as
> > playing with simple test programs that explore it's settings. I have a
> > couple of questions:
> >
> > 1) Is there a definitive web source for development information, or is
> > this mailing list the best compendium?
> 
> I suggest you have a look at
> 
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble
> 
> and of course
> 
> http://edu.kde.org/marble
> 
> > 2) How do I change the default unit of measurement? An application we are
> > thinking of using Marble for requires Imperial measurements, but there
> > doesn't seem to be a function to set this as there is for angular units.
> 
>     MarbleLocale *marbleLocale = MarbleGlobal::getInstance()->locale();
>     marbleLocale->setMeasureSystem( Imperial );
> 
> ... should do IIRC.
> 
> > 3) We often have to specify both the latitude and longitude of the point
> > the map is to be centered on, along with the breadth of the desired view.
> > How would I set the zoom or distance factors to ensure that the minimum
> > widget dimension (height or width) will span a given distance in, say,
> > kilometers?
> 
> Does it really have to be kilometers?
> 
> There is
> 
>     void MarbleWidget::centerOn( const GeoDataLatLonBox& box, bool animated
>  = false );
> 
> (which unfortunately is not available in MarbleMap .. ).
> 
> > This is a wonderful library, and I am looking forward to replacing our
> > current map visualization routines with it. Thanks to everyone who has
> > worked to make this possible.
> 
> Thanks for using Marble :)
> 
> Torsten
> 
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