:Author: Hamish Bowman
:Version: osgeo-live6.5
:License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported  (CC BY-SA 3.0)
:Copyright: 2011 by The OSGeo Foundation

.. image:: ../../images/project_logos/logo-marble.png
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  :alt: project logo
  :align: right
  :target: http://marble.kde.org/

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KDE-edu Marble Quickstart 
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Getting Started
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* Click on the desktop icon in the Navigation and Maps folder

* If you have used Google Earth before you should be able to figure out this program without too much difficulty.

* In the Settings menu select full-screen mode

* Explore ...

* Click on a city name (cursor becomes a pointing hand), within the info center select the Wikipedia tab and read about the place

* In the bottom-left corner of the program window there is a button called "Map View". Click on it.

* Select another map (e.g. 'Precipitation (July)')

* Explore some more ... 


See the `Marble homepage <http://marble.kde.org/>`_ for more help.