:Author: Sergey Popov
:Version: osgeo-live8.5
:License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported  (CC BY-SA 3.0)
:Copyright: 2015 by The OSGeo Foundation

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  :alt: project logo
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  :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 to open Marble. You will see a window like this:

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You can:

  1. Scale the globe by rotating the wheel at your mouse. To move around press the left button of your mouse and move it.

  2. Marble has got 11 different views: 

    - Atlas
    - OpenStreetMap
    - Satellite View
    - Earth at Night
    - Historical Map 1689
    - Moon
    - Plain Map
    - Precipitation (December)
    - Precipitation (July)
    - Temperature (December)
    - Temperature (July).

     To switch them click one of entries in "Theme" list in "Map View" tab.

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  3. Press a label in any place to view more information about it.

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  4. Close panels by clicking the cross at the top-right corner of the panel. To close all the panels press "F9" or go to "Settings->Panels->Hide All Panels". Also you can show/hide a panel by clicking it's title at the "Settings->Panels" menu.

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  5. To find a location, enter its name into the search line on the top of "Search" panel. As you start typing, suggestions below the search line will appear like this:

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  6. Use bookmarks in Marble to remember the location of something. To add a bookmark press the left button of your mouse and click "Add bookmark". After it a window will appear like this:

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     Write the name, description and destination folder of the bookmark and click the "Ok" button. Then the bookmark will appear. To manage bookmarks, go to "Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks". 

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