Marble Software Maps
It is written in c and uses qt.
Marble software maps. We designed the map style to resemble the osm standard tile layer while introducing more vivid colors with a responsive selection of map features. The behaim globe is a digital reproduction of a globe crafted at the time of columbus first sea travel to the west. Marble maps brings the highly detailed openstreetmap to your android devices. The user interface is clean simple and easy to use.
Marble is a geographical atlas and a virtual globe which lets you quickly explore places on our home planet. Western countries are annotated and illustrated in great detail. Marble has therefore clearly been designed more with educators and classrooms in mind than google earth. Marble maps brings the highly detailed openstreetmap to your mobile devices.
Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas that you can use to learn more about earth and you can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. These include a topographic map satellite view street map earth at night and temperature maps. Google maps with gps. Calculate routes to any destination and have marble.
It features a crisp beautiful map with an intuitive user interface. The downside of marble is that it s rather selective in the regions it covers. Marble is a virtual globe application which allows the user to choose among the earth the moon venus mars and other planets to display as a 3 d model. Calculate pedestrian bike and motorcar routes with ease online and offline with an arbitrary number of via points.
Torsten rahn gave a presentation about marble at state of the map 2008 making a very high res image you can simply take a screenshot of marble to get a fairly big image of an openstreetmap globe but this is limited by your screen resolution and for printing you may want a high er resolution bigger image. It is free software under the terms of the gnu lgpl developed by kde for use on personal computers and smart phones. Search for addresses and places of interest. Marble takes care of querying various search backends and presents their results in a unified view.