Marble/C2/Export-Print-and-Download-maps/English-timed
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| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Export, Print and Download maps. |
| 00:08 | In this tutorial we will learn how to-
Export a map |
| 00:13 | Print a map and |
| 00:16 | Download maps |
| 00:19 | To record this tutorial, I am using; |
| 00:22 | Ubuntu Linux OS version 16.04 |
| 00:27 | Marble version 1.12.20 |
| 00:32 | The process demonstrated in this tutorial is identical in-
Ubuntu Linux OS version 18.04 |
| 00:41 | Marble version 2.2.20 and |
| 00:46 | A working internet connection. |
| 00:49 | To practise this tutorial, learner should be familiar with Marble interface. |
| 00:55 | For the prerequisite Marble tutorials, please visit this site. |
| 01:01 | We will learn how to export a map for future reference. |
| 01:06 | We will export a map of India with different states. |
| 01:12 | For this we will use OpenStreetMap from the Map View.
Click on OpenStreetMap. |
| 01:19 | For better view, I will select Flat view option from the drop-down menu. |
| 01:25 | Zoom in and locate India on the map. |
| 01:31 | I will move and place the wind rose in a convenient location. |
| 01: | Let us first hide Overview Map, Compass, Scale bar and Wind rose for better view of the map. |
| 01:47 | Right-click on the Overview map.
A context menu opens. |
| 01:53 | Select Hide option from the menu. |
| 01:56 | Overview map is hidden from the interface. |
| 02:00 | Similarly I will hide Compass, Scale bar and Wind-rose from the interface. |
| 02:11 | Next let us hide latitudes and longitudes. |
| 02:16 | Go to Legend panel and uncheck Coordinate Grid checkbox. |
| 02:23 | Click on the File menu. |
| 02:26 | Select Export Map option. |
| 02:30 | Export Map dialog box opens. |
| 02:34 | Select a location to save the file. |
| 02:37 | I will select the Desktop folder. |
| 02:41 | In the File name field, type the file name as India hyphen map dot png. |
| 02:49 | We can export the map in dot png or dot jpg formats. |
| 02:56 | Click on the Save button at the bottom of the dialog box. |
| 03:01 | Let us open the exported map. |
| 03:05 | Go to the Desktop folder. |
| 03:08 | Here we can see India hyphen map dot png file. |
| 03:14 | Let us double-click to open this file. |
| 03:18 | Click on the close button to close the file. |
| 03:22 | Let us go back to the Marble interface with the same map view. |
| 03:27 | Next, we will learn how to print maps in Marble. |
| 03:32 | Click on the File menu and select Print option. |
| 03:37 | The Print dialog box appears on the interface. |
| 03:41 | Let us click on the Options button in the dialog box. |
| 03:45 | A menu appears with three tabs namely Copies, Options and Marble. |
| 03:53 | The options in this window are the standard print options. |
| 03:58 | Click on the Marble tab.
In this tab we can select the check-boxes to display various options on the map. |
| 04:08 | Visible Globe Region is selected by default. |
| 04:13 | We can check Outer Space and Legend check-boxes if required. |
| 04:19 | Now we will print our map. |
| 04:22 | Let us click on the Print button at the bottom of the dialog box. |
| 04:27 | If you have configured your printer correctly then your map will start printing. |
| 04:35 | An assignment for you.
Export the Political map of Africa in the dot png format. |
| 04:44 | Hint: Use Flat view option. |
| 04:48 | Let us go back to the default view. |
| 04:51 | Check Coordinate Grid checkbox. |
| 04:55 | Then go to Map View and select Atlas view. |
| 05:01 | Click on the Globe view button. |
| 05:04 | Let us zoom out and go back to the default view. |
| 05:08 | Next we will learn how to download maps in Marble. |
| 05:13 | Internet connectivity is required to download a map. |
| 05:18 | To download maps, go to File menu and select Download Maps option. |
| 05:25 | Shortcut key to download map is Ctrl + N. |
| 05:30 | Marble Install Maps window opens on the interface with various maps. |
| 05:36 | There is a scroll bar on the right side of this window. |
| 05:40 | Let us scroll down to see different maps that are available for download. |
| 05:47 | A short description about each map is given along with its view. |
| 05:52 | Below the description, we can see Author, License and Version for that particular map. |
| 06:01 | On the right side of each map, we can see an Install button with a tick mark. |
| 06:07 | From the list of maps I will select Natural Earth III map for downloading. |
| 06:14 | Click on the Install button corresponding to Natural Earth IIImap. |
| 06:20 | We see that Install button is replaced by a progress bar. |
| 06:25 | It will take a few seconds to download depending on the internet connectivity. |
| 06:31 | Apart from the maps of Earth, we also have maps of other celestial bodies. |
| 06:37 | Now I will download the map of Mercury. |
| 06:41 | If you wish to cancel the installation, click on the Cancel button. |
| 06:49 | After downloading click on the Close button at the bottom of this window. |
| 06:56 | Go to Map View and scroll down. |
| 07:00 | We can see that Natural Earth III map is saved in the Map View panel. |
| 07:07 | Click on Natural Earth III map. |
| 07:11 | Natural Earth III map opens on the interface. |
| 07:17 | We have also downloaded the map of Mercury.
As Mercury is a planet, it is saved in the Earth drop-down button. |
| 07:27 | Let us go to Earth drop-down button and click on it. |
| 07:31 | Observe that Mercury is added to this drop-down. |
| 07:36 | Click on Mercury.
Globe view of Mercury opens. |
| 07:43 | An assignment for you.
Download the maps of Venus and Mars. |
| 07:52 | Let us summarize. |
| 07:54 | In this tutorial, we have learnt how to- |
| 07:59 | Export a map |
| 08:01 | Print a map and |
| 08:03 | Download maps |
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| 08:28 | Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by, MHRD, Government of India. |
| 08:34 | This is Viji Nair from, IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for watching. |
