I am a developer myself and want to understand how to integrate marble render into my video. As i mentioned, i would like to know following things:
I just need the "Location zoom based on Geolocation tag" mentioned below to render in 4-6 seconds and do not intend to have 3D models of buildings,trees,clouds or anything.
> Requirements:
1. User tags a GeoLocation
2. Marble Earth(or similar) dynamically renders(mostly using OpenGL+OpenSceneMaps etc) to zoom into the Location tagged by the user
3. Rendering finishes in 4-6 seconds and dumps a video file at the end of the render (.mp4)
My contact email id is reach_kapil@yahoo.com

Are you looking for something like http://youtu.be/-WA3_NShAJk?

Yes very similar. Can you help make such projects?
Really appreciate your help

I just pushed the code which created said video as a cpp example.

How does it work? Can it take input on a location on earth and load+render model automatically each time?
I am on phone right now so could check the code

Yes, you just run the program and it creates the video as output. There are lots of parameters at the top that can be changed easily (start point, destination point, start/end zoom level, intermediate zoom level, video resolution, filename, fps). Should be easy to integrate that elsewhere.

Hi
Can I email you directly? You have been so much help. Thank you so much. Please let me know if there is anyway i can compensate you for this help.
I am very new to Marble and I have worked with KDE or marble before. I am impressed by Marble and wanted to integrate the render to a location from Globe perspective.

I have following questions:
1.User will be entering the Location Tag from Facebook application and I want the code
a. to get the cooridnates of the Location Tag and find the nearest city
b. Render the Marble to Zoom onto the nearest city tag and place a pin and words like BERLIN on top of the map.

This youtube video that you showed zooms too much into the area. I am happy if it only zooms to the top of the neighbouring cities resolution and displays a pin on top highlighting the city name.

Is this possible? Please help me.


Thanks

Changing how much it zooms in is a parameter of the code, so that's easily modified. Highlighting a city (or arbitrary point) is easy as well, see this tutorial. So b. is easy to do.
For a. you need a proper definition though for nearest city: Is a town with 10000 inhabitants 1 km away the nearest city, or is it the other one with 500000 which is 2 km away? So you have to come up with some custom code that finds neighboring cities and selects one as the nearest. I wonder if it's not better to highlight the location tab itself. After all you can choose a map theme that shows cities and the user can see neighboring cities himself then easily, without you choosing the (possibly wrong) one. Finding a proper name for the location tag can be done via reverse geocoding.