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.
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