Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, June 3, 2011,
In :
Maps
I'm sure many of you have used Google Earth well Marble is
an open source virtual globe and world atlas software that also lets users pan and zoom around and look up places,
streets, airports and geographical features like mountains and lakes,
and rivers.
Marble...
starts up fairly
quickly;
downloads with a minimal but useful off-line dataset; it lets users use the software without internet access; Note: higher resolution
imagery and maps become unavailable if there is no...
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