Marble is an open-source world atlas and virtual globe application. Marble is designed to bring you all the locations in the world at your fingertips in a compact and easy-to-use 3D application.
You will be able to search for countless locations and cities in the world, find coordinates, zoom in/out, and a lot more.
Marble includes a database of more than 12,000 locations (cities, mountains, volcanoes) and 11 different views: Atlas, OpenStreetMap, Satellite View, Earth at Night, Historical Map 1689, Temperature (December) and Temperature (July), Moon, Plain Map, Precipitation (December), Precipitation (July).
Marble is cross-platform and it works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Binaries for the Windows and Linux platforms are available on the project's homepage.
Here are some key features of "Marble":
Map Presentation:
· Globe View
· Atlas View
· Street Maps
· Satellite Maps
Information Layers:
· Weather
· Real-time clouds
· Day/Night View
· Real-time satellites
Search:
· Online address search
· Online POI search
· Offline address search
· Offline POI search
Positioning & Tracking:
· GPS localization
· WLAN localization
· Track export (kml)
· Track export (gpx)
Routing & Navigation:
· Online motorcar routing
· Online bike routing
· Online pedestrian routing
· Online transit routing
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· New Space Orbiter visualization
· OpenStreetMap vector handling extensions