[Marble-devel] Marble features

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Emma,

Am 05.05.2014 17:07, schrieb Emma Clarke:
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> Hi,
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> I have a question regarding the running of KML files. I have three
> files, locations, items and routes. In Google Earth I can use these
> KML files, to run an animation of the items moving along the routes,
> between the locations, over a number of months. My items utilise the
> TimeSpan. Is this possible in Marble?
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we have contributed a fair amount of work lately into realizing such
things. There is a Google Summer of Code project also that just started
these days which will realize a related use case (animated tours). Feel
free to share more details about the KML files (ideally share some
samples if privacy etc. allows), I'm curious about their structure.

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> I would also like to be able to toggle the routes, as there are about
> 100 in each file and this is cluttering the map?
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> Thanks
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> Emma
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You can do that from our "Files" panel. In the main menu, "Settings",
"Panels", "[X] Files". Among other files it will show KML files opened
by you in a hierarchic view with a checkbox for each item in it to
toggle whether it is visible.
If your Marble version does not have the "Panels" menu, start it with
the --enableFileView option to get the "Files" panel.

Regards,
Dennis