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#10341: Physical Geography
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Written by Studi8 the 26 Jun 08 at 15:58.
Category: Education.
Related to:
Edubuntu.
Status: New
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Description
Teaching Physical Geography is mostly boring to the students. A nice tool which visualises physical geographical items would be a killer application for edubuntu.
- Earth, moon and sun to teach how seasons, day/night and the moon phases work.
- Focused on earth a tool which allows to visualize athmospheric processes, erosion, tectonics...
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poflaco wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 16:09
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Marble may be good for this, if not maybe try to find out if they can add more features.
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Studi8 wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 17:19
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Marble is useful to show the eart's surface, but there's no sun nor moon, nor movement or any physics system. I think this would be too much to change.
For education marble also needed more information layers like country names, streets, economical information...
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tackat wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 20:39
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- Marble already does sun shading in Marble 0.5 (for the KDE 4.1 release which is due in a month).
- Marble also has support for stars
- Marble also has support for country names since Marble 0.4
- Support for OpenStreetMap is already in current SVN of Marble 0.5 - which means that it will get released together with KDE 4.1.
- Adding the sun and the moon shouldn't be particular hard. Patches are appreciated :)
Torsten Rahn,
Marble Team
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Studi8 wrote on the 27 Jun 08 at 05:46
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@Torsten
Great to hear that. As an paedagogics student I can't code, I hope I can contribute this way.
To teach seasons it would be needed to have:
- some viewing positions like from top, side, earth, following earth
- information layers like angles, ecliptic, earth orbit
- controls for the movement and spin of the earth
- visualisation of day&night (nightview is a great map you've implemented)
- visualisation of sun intensity on earth
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O9hawBb3wbk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=taHTA7S_JGk
Also very useful were information layers of the tectonic plates at some times of earth's history (now, Paleogene, Cretaceous...)
Or climatic maps like here: http://klimadiagramme.de/Karten/klimakarten.html
layers which show statistical data like: density of inhabitants, BIP, natural resources...
I know it is a big whishlist, I hope you can use some of it.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 27 Jun 08 at 10:33
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Torsten,
Yeah that would be pretty cool.
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