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Google Code-in 2014 KDE

Marble: Extend the OSM Tour to include balloon descriptions.

completed by: Mikhail Ivchenko

mentors: Dennis Nienhüser, Abhinav Gangwar, Torsten Rahn, Sanjiban Bairagya, shentey

Extend the bestofosm4.kml

http://devel-home.kde.org/~tackat/bestofosm4.kml

Extending the bestofosm4.kml should be done fully using the Tour Panel. There should be no "manual" editing in the KML file being performed.

Please make the following changes:

- each of the first major FlyTo targets has got a named placemark associated and a balloon popping up.

- The placemark should have a meaningful name.

- The balloon's description text should consist of

  • a bold heading
  • a detailed two-sentence summary what the place is about. If the text is based on wikipedia then this needs to be mentioned in the credit line as described below.
  • The text needs to be proof-read and should contain all required articles ("the", "a").
  • a single locally stored picture. The copyright and license needs to be fitting our copyright/license requirements (e.g. use wikipedia). The image needs to fit nicely into the geometry of the balloon.
  • a properly linked credit line for the image (which links to the wikipedia site where you got the image from). A click on the image should bring the reader to the site of origin.
  • The credit line should consist of small italic text. If the image and the text are based on wikipedia there should be only a single line referring to both.
  • At the bottom of the page before the credits section there should be a line. "Read more at <href ....>Wikipedia</href>"
  • The wait durations need to be reasonably increased to allow at least for a quick glance at the balloons (not a pessimistically assumed slow reading time).