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Hartă topografică: OpenTopoMap Eu o folosesc în general din Marble.

Se vede cum Stejaru și Farcașa cam stau în albia Bistriței (sau cum Argeșul coboară de la ~70m peste nivelul mării la 1 Decembrie la ~20 m la Oltenița în ~70 km, în timp de Dunărea coboară de la ~40 m peste nivelul mării la Severin, în vreo 500 km, că tot s-a discutat recent despre canal navigabil, cînd noi nu avem nici cale ferată).

Edit: link la Marble

Yes you can go with a globe but it has it's own downfalls. It isn't good for navigation, it obscures a good portion of the world, depending on your angle there are distortions visually by the fringes of the globe because you aren't seeing it straight on. So you basically have to constantly move the globe around which is doable but not ideal. But I do agree everyone at at least some point should have access to a globe to play around with and to have as a mental reference to keep in mind. This important so people know where and how things are distorted. KDE's Marble globe app shows both globe and Mercator projections and you can switch quickly between them.

Not PBF but KDE Marble can display OSM XML directly. But it's quite slow. The other option is to download the PBF and render tiles from it which it can then display.

I've been working on this for some time. There are a few constraints. Most map viewers can't load a huge OSM files directly without crashing or running out of memory. You need to use smaller regions/files. Marble is very good but enormously suffers from this problem. Navit fares better, but is difficult to setup (I still don't have a fully usable setup) and you have to build it's data files from .osm data (CPU and time consuming). The only proper way would be setting up an OSM tileserver + frontend like https://github.com/MapBBCode/share.mapbbcode.org but the tileserver part is very hard to get right, and requires a powerful server.

Building a custom Debian ISO on the other hand is very easy thanks to live-build - the one I've built does not require any Internet access to install and has some useful apps ready to use.

>For folks who don't want to click a link that just randomly starts downloading installers:
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>https://marble.kde.org/

Heh. mea culpa. I'm so in the habit of looking before clicking I assumed "the actual installer" would be helpful in this case. :upside_down_guy:

Because Marble is not just based on OpenStreetMap, it is it's own library / app and does multiple projections and can run on any device practically even ones without GPUs. Marble has support for rendering non Earth worlds like Mars and Venus as well as the various moons in our solar system. It is also a library that is utilized by currently existing projects and is the GEO widget for KDE applications. If you download and try Marble out you would understand why they wouldn't just replace their own framework for one that is focused on only one aspect. Check Marble out it is one interesting and powerful tool and is just plain fun!

Latest Marble development branch has got a pretty extensive "Edit Maps" panel that allows you to draw paths, polygons, placemarks and groundoverlays:

https://marble.kde.org/sources.php

Latest Marble also allows to create nice Tours like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKhPMXa4hD8

I'll reveal that it was "Marble". I thought signing was a thing outside of the Apple store too. I.E. a package can _come with_ a signature or not, even when downloaded outside of the Apple store. I've whitelist installs with the "this one is not signed" intervention in System Preferences. I've also had off-store downloads that did not require that intervention. I believe in the latter case they are signed.

I did _not_ have to do the "install anyway" intervention in System Preferences when installing Marble. Which, up until now, I thought meant "it's signed".

Hard not to get paranoid...

You can use the Marble globe app https://marble.kde.org

It has different projections and can use OSM maps. That being said in most cases Mercator is the best default due to it being the standard for web tiles, good directionality and no visible distortion when zoomed in. Mercator remains the best projection for navigation and by far is the most utilitarian projection.

Two things:

Is there a reason to have VVaves rather than focus on Elisa and just make Elisa's UI adaptive to mobile? Namely, don't have two redundanct music apps (not familiar with VVaves so I could be missing something)

Second awesome to see there's a Linux version now instead of just Android for Marble Maps so that KDE will have a navigation solution on Linux mobile! It might be worthwhile to update the website accordingly to reflect this to point to the Linux Marble Maps binaries, even if it's only in alpha/beta: https://marble.kde.org/

To people with desktop computers I suggest Marble, a virtual globe where you can choose the projection of the Earth (also Moon, Mars etc) and various maps like temperature, heights or historical. By default it shows the most realistic of its views: 3d globe; you'll see how large Congo is, or how far Australia is from Asia.

There's always Google Earth, but now it is a browser app.

Here's google maps for the moon https://www.google.com/moon/ to check out its features. (try the elevation button).

And here's a free map/atlas program that also has the moon and some planets as optional downloads, available for linux/mac/windows: https://marble.kde.org/

I do have an almost mint N9. It's fantastic. But the hardware is getting slightly slow.

Still, my main use case aside from calls is offline GPS, and nothing matches Nokia HERE. I wonder when https://marble.kde.org/ will get ported to Sailfish, or when the Neo900 will become a reality!

I hope they don't cease Google Earth, but it's certainly possible (and understandable honestly; I want Google to be financially secure and produce the best products they can). With that said, I'm STILL not back to where I was after Reader was axed.

I found an free/open source contender: Marble https://marble.kde.org/index.php

I only played with it for a ~60 seconds but it looks promising and comparable in terms of UI.