[maemo-developers] QT map widget

[From: Ian Stirling]

Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Freitag 11 Juni 2010 schrieb Marijn Kruisselbrink:
>> You might also want to look at the marblewidget (http://edu.kde.org/marble/). 

> 
> I did. On the n900 as well as on the linux desktop. While i really think this
> is great for desktops i also think that it isn't the right thing for mobile
> devices. There are several issues:
> 
> - It is big and installs ~10MB data
> - It is pretty complex and doesn't really fit on the small screen
> - It takes several seconds to load
> - It runs pretty slow
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> I have read that poeple are working on the speed issue. But speed alone isn't

And speedups may be very possible - if for example you can offload 
portions of the workload onto a GPU.

But, for the forseeable future, 3D will not always be available on the 
mobile platform.

Especially as I wouldn't expect the future of featurephones to be a 
simple race to 2GHz/GPU/...

Yes, that'll be happening - but in parallel will be soon coming out (I 
predict - regrettably I have no inside info) n900-lite devices based on 
whatever can be gotten that week in china.

It's also not impossible that as capacities of cheap phones rise - take 
a look at http://noknok.tv/2010/01/04/nokia-5230-officially-shipping/ - 
for example - and even phones at the very bottom of the market are 
starting to include 'web browsers' - capabilities of the processors and 
GPU will not be up to n900 levels for some years.

The ability for such a widget to be 'cross platform' - and run on small 
devices would be a valuable one.