[maemo-developers] QT map widget

[From: Marijn Kruisselbrink]

On Friday 11 June 2010 11:02:53 Till Harbaum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with the switch to qt i think there's a need for a qt map widget. I really
> see a need for a unified widget to be used by all applications. The
> current situation with multiple different map widgets on maemo5
> shows what imho should be prevented:
>
> - They store cached tiles at different locations wasting bandwidth as
> well as device flash space
> - No central point for map maintenance (e.g. cleaning the map cache
> or downloading entire areas into the cache for offline usage)
> - No easy and central way to add new map sources
> - The overall look and feel is different although they intend to provide
>  similar function
> - Some widgets work behind network proxies, some don't
> - None of these widgets is really developer friendly
>
> Sampo Savola, the author of ecoach suggested to think about a qt
> map widget. I am also interested in this as i am the author of osm2go,
> maep and gpxview. Who else would like to contribute to this? I'd like
> to make sure that such a widget satisfies most developers need
> to be able to address above issues with one single qt map widget.
>
> A start may be this widget:
>   http://medieninf.de/qmapcontrol/
You might also want to look at the marblewidget (http://edu.kde.org/marble/). 
As far as I know it can be built without any kde dependency, and is pretty 
powerful.

Marijn