Marble/C3/Additional-Features-of-Marble/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to this Spoken Tutorial on Additional Features of Marble.
00:06	In this tutorial we will, learn about Elevation Profile
00:10	Gps information
00:12	Day and night concept
00:14	Online services Atmosphere and clouds
00:19	To record this tutorial, I am using,
00:21	Ubuntu Linux OS, version 16.04 Marble version 1.12.20 and
00:30	A working Internet connection.
00:33	The process demonstrated in this tutorial is identical in, Ubuntu Linux OS, version 18.04
00:42	Marble version 2.2.20
00:47	To practise this tutorial, learners should be familiar with the Marble interface.
00:53	For the prerequisite Marble tutorials, please visit this site.
00:58	The files used in this tutorial are available in the Code Files link on this tutorial page.
01:04	Please download and extract them.
01:07	Make a copy and then use them while practising.
01:11	I have downloaded and saved the files to my Desktop.
01:16	I have opened the Marble interface in the OpenStreetMap view.
01:21	I will select Flat view option from the Mapview panel.
01:26	Let us go to the View menu and click on it.
01:30	Select Info Boxes and from the sub-menu click on the Elevation Profile option.
01:37	A box with a message appears.
01:39	Create a route or load a track from the file to view its elevation profile.
01:46	Elevation Profile shows the altitude of a route.
01:49	It helps to analyze the height of the hills and landforms.
01:54	I will place the box at a convenient location.
01:58	I have created a route and its track from Mumbai to Vadodara on the map.
02:04	Route hyphen 2 dot kml file is given in the code files link of this tutorial.
02:10	To open the file, right-click on it and select the option Open with Marble.
02:16	I have opened my route in the OpenStreetMap Flat view.
02:21	Place the mouse cursor inside the rectangular box.
02:24	Hover the mouse inside the box.
02:28	We can see the altitude of different places appearing on the route.
02:33	Let us hide this Elevation Profile box.
02:37	Right click on the box.
02:39	From the context menu select Hide option to hide it.
02:44	Let us learn about the gps information available in Marble.
02:49	Let us open the track of the existing route.
02:53	Go to the Location panel. Click on the drop down button below Position Tracking.
02:59	Select Current Route option.
03:02	Go to the View menu and select Info Boxes.
03:06	From the submenu select GpsInfo option.
03:10	A box with gps information appears on the left side of the interface.
03:16	Notice the change in speed, and direction.
03:20	Now let us hide this box.
03:23	Right click on the box, select Hide option from the context menu.
03:29	Now we will disable the position tracking and close the route map.
03:34	As an assignment,
03:35	Explore the following options, Redisplay, Speedometer and Routing.
03:42	Now we will learn about the concept of day and night.
03:46	Let us zoom out to see the default view.
03:50	Go to Map view panel and select Globe view.
03:54	Go to the View menu and select, Sun Control option.
03:59	Sun Control dialog box opens.
04:02	I will place this dialog box to the left side of the interface.
04:07	Check the Sun Shading check box.
04:10	Select the Shadow radio button if not already selected.
04:15	Click on the Apply button.
04:18	Rotate and observe that globe turns into a day night mode.
04:24	Under Subsolar Point, check Display Subsolar Point icon check box. Click on the Apply button.
04:33	Click on the OK button in the box
04:37	Subsolar point is displayed on the globe.
04:40	Notice that portion facing the sun experiences day.
04:44	The other half away from the Sun experiences night.
04:49	In the dark portion we can see the Moon.
04:53	At any moment, half of the world is in daytime and half is in night time.
04:58	Now let us remove this subsolar point from the globe.
05:03	Go to the view menu and select Sun Control option.
05:08	In the Sun Control dialog box, uncheck the Sun shading check box.
05:14	Then uncheck Display Subsolar Point icon checkbox.
05:20	Click on the Apply button.
05:23	Click on the OK button in the box.
05:26	The Subsolar point is not visible on the globe.
05:31	As as assignment, Explore more about Subsolar point.
05:36	Go back to the Atlas view.
05:39	Again go to the View menu and click on Online Services option.
05:45	These plugins display georeferenced Wikipedia articles as icons on the map.
05:52	In this version of Marble only Photos and Satellites plugins are enabled.
05:57	Click on the Photos plugin.
06:01	Notice that different photos appear on the globe.
06:05	Let us rotate the globe to see the various photos across the globe.
06:10	Let us zoom in and locate India on the globe.
06:14	When we zoom in more photos appear.
06:18	I will click on one of the photos.
06:21	It opens with a Flickr photo sharing site.
06:25	Flickr is a popular image and video hosting service used by photographers.
06:31	The photo which I have selected is of Victoria Terminus.
06:35	We can see the name of the person who had shared this photo.
06:38	Let us close this flickr site.
06:42	The photos on the map were shared by people who had visited the place.
06:46	Let us zoom out and go back to the default view.
06:51	I will disable the Photos plugin.
06:54	Go to the View menu and select Online Services option.
06:59	Then click on Photos plugin to hide the photos from the map.
07:04	Go to Map View panel and select Satellite view.
07:08	Satellite view is seen.
07:11	Then go to the view menu and click on Atmosphere.
07:16	We can see that a white layer has formed around the earth.
07:21	It shows the diffused reflection of the atmosphere around the Earth.
07:26	Go to View menu and select Clouds option.
07:30	We can see that the clouds have appeared on the globe.
07:35	Let us summarize.
07:37	In this tutorial we have, learnt about, Elevation Profile , Gps information , Day and night concept, Online services , Atmosphere and clouds
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08:14	This tutorial is contributed by Viji Nair and Madhuri Ganapathi from IIT Bombay. Thank you for watching.

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