[Marble-devel] German Style OSM for Marble

[Jan Simon]

Hello.

I've got a support question about Marble. I couldn't find an answer in 
the forum/wiki and the Marble homepage states that this mailing list is 
also suitable for support questions. Here it is:

I am using Marble in openSUSE 12.3 (was included in my distribution). I 
usually use it to display OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps. On the German 
website of OSM

http://www.openstreetmap.de/

the maps are displayed in a special "German style". I would very much 
like to make Marble display this German style, too. How can I do this? 
The "German style" map data is stored here:

http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik-german/

Does Marble download the (style independent) "raw" map data (in this 
case I would somehow have to replace the normal style elements by the 
German ones on my computer) or does Marble download the readily rendered 
pictures? In this case I would have to change the download source in 
Marble to the "German style"-one somehow.
Furthermore, my operating system has a special background module for the 
desktop which is able (as it appears to me) to display Marble's output 
as my screen background (interactive zooming and scrolling via mouse). 
Will the new style be displayed there, too? (If not, how can I achieve 
this?)

I very much appreciate your help. Please take into account, that I'm not 
an expert in Marble, OSM or Linux (I'm using Linux only since 10 months).

Merry Christmas

Jan Simon