At its heart, a software library powers the Marble applications -- also integrated in a wide variety of other projects like Digikam or the KDE workspaces. Using the Marble library in your project requires only …

Built on a common foundation, Marble shares a similar feature set on all supported platforms. Compare their similarities and differences in the feature matrix below.

Calculate routes to any destination and have Marble Maps guide you with its turn-by-turn navigation feature. If you do not want to use the Google Play Store, you can download an APK or build the …

The user manual introduces you to the main elements of the Marble Desktop application (KDE and Qt version). You can open it from within Marble using the F1 shortcut (and from the Help menu).

We seek to create a simple and clean, task-oriented virtual globe and world atlas software for casual users. While feature-rich and flexible, we design it to be easy to use and visually pleasing.

The Marble library is written in C++ and provides bindings for Qt Quick (QML). Below you find some examples that demonstrate a basic integration of a map widget provided by Marble into custom C++ …

There are several companies who provide commercial support for Marble. Here's a list of companies which provide commercial support for Marble and which have a track-record for Marble development:

When configuring Marble with cmake, dependencies are automatically detected and configured. A working compiler and Qt development packages are required; otherwise cmake will abort with an error.

On Windows this is data/maps in your Marble installation. On Linux you will find it in $XDG_DATA_HOME/marble/maps while $XDG_DATA_HOME is usually ~/.local/share.

The first release of Marble in the 1.4 series, Marble 1.4.0, was released on August 1st, 2012 alongside the KDE software compilation. Further 1.4.x versions follow the KDE 4.9.x releases.