Bug 350474

Summary:	would like to have command line option to make geo-uri also set a bookmark
Product:	[Applications] marble	Reporter:	Niels Elgaard <elgaard>
Component:	general	Assignee:	marble-bugs
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nienhueser
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.8 (KDE 4.13)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Niels Elgaard 2015-07-22 03:18:30 UTC

I would like to use e.g. Wikivoyage offline.

Kiwix can use WV offline, and when you click on a POI it can call a program with a geo-uri as argument. On Android this works with osmand.

On Linux I would like to use Marble. Marble has a geo-uri CL argument. But when Marble opens it is difficult to see exactly where the POI was.

It is possible to set bookmarks in Marble. If you could set a bookmark from the commandline, it would be great. E.g., 
marble --geo-uri-bookmark geo:055.60538,037.28717
Or 
marble --geo-uri geo:055.60538,037.28717 --bookmark

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Dennis Nienhüser 2015-07-22 17:26:32 UTC

Thanks for the suggestion. Can you please clarify whether you want
A) the place pointed to with geo-uri to become better visible after opening
or
B) the ability to easily create bookmarks from outside

I'm asking because A) is more a rendering improvement, while B) is a tooling question (e.g. could be done by a separate tool, or by Marble in a headless mode, or by using Marble's DBus interface)

Comment 2 Dennis Nienhüser 2015-07-25 04:58:57 UTC

Please reopen when commenting, thanks.

Comment 3 Niels Elgaard 2015-07-25 19:00:55 UTC

Yes, maybe it should be done as a separate tool.
I just want to be able to click on geo link, have it open in marble, with a marker, so I can see precisely where the POI is.

I looked into using qdbus:

==
#!/bin/bash
geo=${1#geo:}
lon=${geo%,*}
lat=${geo#*,}
marble_pid="$(pidof marble)"
if [ ${marble_pid}x == x ]; then
    marble&
    marble_pid=$!
fi
qdbus org.kde.marble-${marble_pid} /MarbleWidget org.kde.MarbleWidget.setShowPlaces true
alias MCALL='qdbus org.kde.marble-${marble_pid} /MarbleWidget'
qdbus org.kde.marble-${marble_pid} /MarbleWidget org.kde.MarbleWidget.centerOn "$lat" "$lon"
qdbus org.kde.marble-${marble_pid} /MarbleWidget org.kde.MarbleWidget.setShowCrosshairs true
# would like to do something like:
qdbus org.kde.marble-${marble_pid} /MarbleWidget addPlaceMarkData ...
# but not accessible from qdbus
==

This would have the advantage that multiple POI's could be opened, e.g., to show all restaurants in ca city.