Marble - Virtual Globe v1.5.5-1

@Dennis, You're right about the way I use it. It always appeared to have acquired a fix whenever I looked at it, but of course I've no idea whether or not it had lost sight of the satellites in between. If you've got any suggestions for diagnostics that might be useful, let me know.

@Tony: Can you give me some details how you used Marble during the ride? I guess with GPS turned on and the screen turned off? In offline mode missing tiles do not cause network queries. Losing the GPS connection however does trigger the connection dialog since we run it in agps mode which queries for a network connection when no satellites are in view.

Looks like it's got good potential, but needs a lot of work before I'm likely to think about replacing Mappero with it. Two particular things I don't like: * Very heavy on battery. Using it on a six hour bike ride yesterday my battery was nearly flat at the end. * Even when in offline mode it insists on keeping asking for a network connection, presumably because it hasn't got maps at the right scale for where I am. This may be contributing to the high battery use.

Thanks for this great app, really helped me in recent trip waiting for the offline adress search

Great application but not so great optimization for mobile-networks. I've yet to get good/proper signal-lock with this. Hopefully this will be improved in the future versions.

Great application. Giving 5 stars though there is room for improvement with offline routing & address search to match the functionality of online address search.

Highly recomended

@john: You can use the "Download Region" feature for that. It works on rectangular regions (the map region visible in the screen). To download offline routing maps, use the routing dialog. There's a detailed tutorial that covers both at http://userbase.kde.org/Marble/Maemo/OfflineRouting

Not sure if you have answered this already. But is they a way to download all of the uk maps and zoom levels etc just like a Tom Tom ?

So no internet connection is needed at all. handy when in another country with expensive data cost.

@Jakub: I plan to work on an offline address search for Marble 1.1 (~ April 2011) or 1.2 (August 2011). It will include city and street data for the country maps.

Great job! Just few questions/wishes: Is there any way to download cities'/streets'/etc. name index (with coordinates) from OSM so it wouldn't need an internet connection? I've managed to download some map tiles (very big, though) and a Navit map, but it still needs an internet connection for searching in the map.

Really like this, as I get to know it better it is slowly replacing ovi-maps