<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//DE"><HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><TITLE>Message</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Hi,<br><br>with the switch to qt i think there's a need for a qt map widget. I really<br>see a need for a unified widget to be used by all applications. The <br>current situation with multiple different map widgets on maemo5<br>shows what imho should be prevented:<br><br>- They store cached tiles at different locations wasting bandwidth as<br>well as device flash space<br>- No central point for map maintenance (e.g. cleaning the map cache<br>or downloading entire areas into the cache for offline usage)<br>- No easy and central way to add new map sources<br>
- The overall look and feel is different although they intend to provide<br> similar function<br>- Some widgets work behind network proxies, some don't<br>- None of these widgets is really developer friendly<br><br>Sampo Savola, the author of ecoach suggested to think about a qt<br>map widget. I am also interested in this as i am the author of osm2go,<br>maep and gpxview. Who else would like to contribute to this? I'd like<br>to make sure that such a widget satisfies most developers need<br>to be able to address above issues with one single qt map widget.<br><br>A start may be this widget:<br> http://medieninf.de/qmapcontrol/<br><br><br>Till<br></BODY></HTML>