Comments on: Insight into KGeography

By: Arindam Ghosh

Arindam Ghosh — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:09:45 +0000

Thanks a lot bro!!

By: Feedback wanted on the activity oriented approach in Bijra project « Arindam’s Weblog

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:05:22 +0000

[...] maps adapted from the KGeography Handbook for their aid. Initially, I even made such an attempt: Insight into KGeography. As Indranil Dasgupta posted, “It was fairly good! And it was also just plain WRONG! If we [...]

By: Kushal Das

Kushal Das — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:31:20 +0000

Nice work
Will try to make some maps

By: Weekend Aantel’s Blog » Blog Archive » What’s wrong with the geeky HOWTOs?

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:57:48 +0000

[...] The solution looked simple enough. Let’s just write a HOWTO using the functional, if somewhat technical KGeography Handbook! It’s that simple! No??? In fact, one of our interns working on the project Arindam “mak” Ghosh did exactly that! He wrote a typical geeky HOWTO – “Insight into KGeography” [...]

By: Add the map of India into kgeography… « Arindam’s Weblog

Add the map of India into kgeography… « Arindam’s Weblog — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:41:58 +0000

[...] Posted on January 3, 2008 by Arindam Ghosh As a follow-up of my last post Insight into KGeography, I would like to publish the completed release of my presentation regarding “lets’ add [...]

By: Arindam

Arindam — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:04:51 +0000

Yep!! I have posted the update at the end of the post

By: idg

idg — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:27:57 +0000

update ta kothai?

By: Geek Lectures - Things geeks should know about » Blog Archive » Insight into KGeography

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:16:10 +0000

[...] zetwal wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt KGeography is a geography learning tool integrated with KDE-Edu. It helps a student to learn geography in a playful way. But it still doesn’t has all the maps as yet. How to add them? For adding a new map in KGeography, we need two things. One, the map (say in a file called mapname.png) and secondly, a kgm file (whose name should be mapname.kgm) to integrate the map with kgeography. Once we have them we can easily add them in its’ home directory (default: /usr/share/apps/kgeography). Now, what kgeography does is an image-processing. It distinguishes a division of the map by its’ RGB values. Then it identifies the division by Name, Capital, Flag etc parameters given in the kgm file for that division. So, for adding a map we need to do following things: 1. First, create the map using GIMP, Kolourpaint or any other picture editors. Getting a political outline […] [...]