Additional maps for marble (earth and moon)
OpenStreetMap derived map themes, educational map themes, satellite map themes, themes for other planets.
| Authors | Bastian Holst, Dennis Nienhüser, Torsten Rahn |
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Dante Jones: Thanks for your feedback. We know about most of these issues and have a solution in mind for them already. So there is still some wider room for improvements but it takes time to get the remaining issues ironed out. What is easy to fix are the font sizes of course. It would be helpful if you could file bugs about the remaining visual glitches and issues.
Torsten
I wanted to like this application very much, but could not.
A hefty download at 20Mb with Marble, after installation it runs as an impressive memory and processor hog.
It's interface is badly laggy, which impacts negatively on it's ability to be used intuitively.
Fonts are way too small, and buttons lack suitable visual feedback.
Desired information stored in the app seems very difficult and frustrating for the user to acquire.
Marble Maps v1.0.0 is very rough and much in need of improvement and optimisation.
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Torsten -- I don't agree. I've been in Malta the last week and used Marble on a daily basis. It works great for me in its current state.
CPU and memory usage are fine on my N900. There was another user reporting a (probably memory related) problem that lead to laggy behavior of the UI. I guess it happens when the remaining memory of the N900 is small. Marble needs roughly 50 MB RAM. We can trim it down a little bit more in the future, but there are not too many possibilities.
Not sure about font sizes. I guess that refers to the fonts in the map of the OpenStreetMap theme? We're just rendering the OSM tiles there, so it's more the size/resolution ratio of the N900 to blame. Of course vector maps could solve that, but that's a feature for the distant future. Or do you mean the fonts of the vector based maps?
Which buttons lack visual feedback? The ones in the menus are standard Maemo buttons. If they don't provide visual feedback, I can only think of memory shortage (laggy UI) that leads to this. Or do you mean the four buttons on the bottom of the screen?
Please be more specific and report bugs at http://bugs.kde.org. Thanks.