Learn Marble

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Introduction

ICT Competency

Subject (Geography) resource creation.

Educational application and relevance

Atlas is an essential resource for a Geography teacher. An atlas is required to learn political geography as well as physical geography. Marble is a digital atlas. It can be used to understand and analyse map information of the Earth. Lessons can be created using different maps from Marble to understand certain concepts in geography.

Version

Marble Virtual Globe Version 1.8.3 (stable release) (Marble is also available on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems)

Configuration

This tool has no specific configuration requirements

Overview of Features

Marble is an virtual atlas, it has many digital maps of the Earth. These maps provide information about physical geography of the Earth, including topography, rainfall, climate etc. It also has ‘historical’ maps which give the information about the Earth at various points in time in the past, relating to political regimes at that time

Other similar applications

Other free digital atlas applications include K Geography Non free digital atlas includes https://www.google.com/earth (Google), Bhuvan http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/bhuvan_links.php (ISRO).

Development and community help

Working with the application

Functionalities

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Step I

On the left side you will see many maps one below the other. Selecting any of them, will open it fully on the right side. You can use your mouse to move the Earth in all ways – top to bottom and bottom to top, right to left and left to right. You can click on the map at any place to expand it – this is ‘drilling down’ the map. You can also use the scale bar at the right to increase/reduce the map size and change its orientation.

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File formats for creation

Saving the file

Export and publishing files

Advanced features

Installation

Method of installation Steps
From Ubuntu software Centre Steps
From Terminal Steps
From the web Steps
Web based registration Steps

The application on mobiles and tablets

Ideas for resource creation

References

How to use template

{{subst:Explore_an_application}} on the page you create for your tool. Page Name should be "Learn ToolName"