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Hello viewers, I am writing this blog to share the progress of work I have done till now as Gsoc 2010 participant. The official date of writing code was 24th May,2010. In the meantime, I was unable to resist myself to develop marble. So I decided to change the data source of city placemarks from World Gazetteer to GeoNames. GeoNames has great collection of over 8,000,000 geographical names. Beyond names of places in various languages, data provided by GeoNames include latitude, longitude, elevation, population, administrative subdivision and postal codes. Marble now shows all cities with a population greater than 15000. This has solved various bugs in Marble such as mirrored coordinates bug. This displays the correct name for many Indian cities like Delhi, Mysore, Hyderabad, Meerut. Screenshots of Marble using World Gazetteer and GeoNames data source are: Read More

Hello blogging world.. This is my first blog entry. I am having my final examination from day after tomorrow, so wish we best of luck ;) About me: I am Harshit Jain, a undergraduate student from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), India. Currently, I am in 6th semester in Computer Science and Engineering. My hometown is Bhilwara, India. Read More