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| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to this Spoken tutorial on Search Places and Measure Distances. |
| 00:08 | In this tutorial we will learn about, |
| 00:12 | Search places |
| 00:14 | Place information data sheet |
| 00:17 | Measure the distance between two places. |
| 00:21 | To record this tutorial, I am using; Ubuntu Linux OS version 16.04 |
| 00:28 | Marble version 1.12.20 |
| 00:33 | The process demonstrated in this tutorial is identical in
Ubuntu Linux version OS 18.04, Marble version 2.2.20 |
| 00:45 | To practise this tutorial, learner should be familiar with Marble interface. |
| 00:51 | For the prerequisite Marble tutorials, please visit this site. |
| 00:57 | We have already learnt about different panels in Marble. |
| 01:02 | We will learn how to search places using the Search panel. |
| 01:07 | In the Search panel, we can see a search box. |
| 01:11 | Search box has a binocular icon with drop down arrow button. |
| 01:17 | Click on the down arrow button to show Global Search and Area Search. |
| 01:23 | By default Global Search is selected. |
| 01:27 | Let us enter the name of a place in the search box, to find its location on the map. |
| 01:33 | We will search for China on the map. |
| 01:37 | Type china in the search box. |
| 01:41 | When we type the alphabet C, all the places starting with C appear below the search box. |
| 01:48 | Now select China from the list. |
| 01:52 | Press Enter key on the keyboard. |
| 01:55 | Notice that a cross hair appears on the location of China on the map. |
| 02:01 | If crosshair option is not activated on your interface, go to View menu.
And check Crosshairs option. |
| 02:12 | Let us zoom in and navigate to China. |
| 02:17 | After finding the location on the map, left-click on its label. |
| 02:22 | Place information data sheet appears on the screen. |
| 02:26 | On the top of this data sheet name and flag of the country are shown. |
| 02:32 | Next we have Coordinates table. |
| 02:36 | This table shows information about Longitude, Latitude and Elevation of a place. |
| 02:45 | Below the table we have Short Description. |
| 02:49 | In the Short description, a brief history about the country is given. |
| 02:55 | Data sheet has a scroll-bar to scroll to the bottom of the sheet.
Let us scroll down to the bottom. |
| 03:03 | Now we have Fact sheet table. |
| 03:06 | It shows Population and Area of the country. |
| 03:11 | I will scroll up the data sheet. |
| 03:14 | Click on the Close button to close the data sheet. |
| 03:18 | To clear the search history, click on the Clear button in the Search box. |
| 03:23 | I will zoom out to go back to default view on the map. |
| 03:29 | Let us search for Mount Everest. |
| 03:33 | I will type Mount Everest in the search box. |
| 03:37 | When we start typing Mount, a list of mountains appears below the search box. |
| 03:44 | Select Mount Everest from the list. |
| 03:48 | Press Enter key on the keyboard. |
| 03:41 | Mount Everest is shown the map. |
| 03:54 | Left-click on its label to show place information data sheet. |
| 04:00 | Let us close this data sheet. |
| 04:04 | An assignment for you. |
| 04:07 | Find the location of Russia on the map. |
| 04:11 | Show its place information data sheet on the map. |
| 04:16 | Next we will learn how to measure the distance between two places on the map. |
| 04:22 | Let us find the distance between Mumbai and Chennai. |
| 04:27 | I will zoom in and locate Mumbai on the map. |
| 04:32 | Then right click on its location. |
| 04:35 | A context menu appears on the globe. |
| 04:38 | Select Add measure points option. |
| 04:41 | A white plus sign appears on the location of Mumbai. |
| 04:46 | Next locate Chennai. |
| 04:49 | Right click on its label. Context menu appears again. |
| 04:55 | Select Add measure points option. |
| 04:58 | A red line, connecting Mumbai and Chennai is shown on the map. |
| 05:04 | The distance between Mumbai and Chennai is shown as 1020.5 Km. |
| 05:12 | This value may slightly change while you are measuring. |
| 05:17 | Total distance between these two places is also shown below the Overview map. |
| 05:23 | To remove the measure points, right click on the map. |
| 05:27 | Context menu appears. |
| 05:30 | Select Remove Measure Points option. |
| 05:34 | Now we do not see the measure points for Mumbai and Chennai. |
| 05:40 | An assignment for you.
Find the distance between Pune and Hyderabad on the map. |
| 05:49 | Let us summarise,
In this tutorial have learnt about, |
| 05:55 | Search places. |
| 05:57 | Place information data sheet. |
| 06:00 | Measure distance between two places. |
| 06:04 | The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project.
Please download and watch it. |
| 06:12 | The Spoken Tutorial Project team: conducts workshops using spoken tutorials and gives certificates.
For more details, please write to us. |
| 06:22 | Please post your timed queries on this forum. |
| 06:26 | Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by, MHRD,Government of India. |
| 06:32 | This is Viji Nair from, IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for watching. |
