Hi there,
I'm currently preparing another release of Marble Maps for Android. The
current version was released on December 11th, 2016. Changes since then
include
- public transport routes can be highlighted (use the toggle in the new
side panel)
- many more features shown in the map, among them winter sports (piste
maps, skitours, nordic trails, ski jump, ...)
- bugfixes and speed improvements
- now using Qt 5.8 as a base
While it works fine on my two devices, I'd appreciate more tests on
other Android systems. You can get todays version in our alpha channel
[1] after joining the alpha testers group [2]. Alternatively, there's a
direct APK download at [3]. Some screenshots of public transport are in
[4].
The alpha version downloads vector tiles from a different location than
the stable one. They include the new features, but do not cover the same
area as the stable ones so far. At this point Germany is fully available
(i.e. tile levels 11/13/15/17), the alps (for winter sports, also full
detail) will follow in some days. Tile levels 0/1/3/5/7/9 are there
worldwide, levels 11/13 will follow in the next days. Selected 300
cities in tile leves 15/17 will follow soon as well. At that point it
should be possible to have the new tiles replace the current ones
assuming compatibility testing is successful.
In order to support public transport routes I generalized the OSM
relation extraction from multipolygons to arbitrary relations. So far
there is no filtering of relations in order to facilitate implementing
other features that make use of relations. However this comes at the
price of some 20% larger tile size in average, and a slower tile
creation process. On the positive side this means we also know about
other types of routes already, e.g. road routes like the international
E-road network, permanently signed detour routes, walking and hiking
routes, bicycle and mountainbike routes, inline skating routes, horse
routes, ... You can highlight them case by case when tapping on a map
feature such a route runs across. A better user interface for that
should be ready for the next but one feature release.
Regards,
Dennis
[1] https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.kde.marble.maps
[2] https://plus.google.com/communities/110975300772106415242
[3]
http://files.kde.org/marble/downloads/android/MarbleMaps-1.1.0_23.apk
[4] https://plus.google.com/109002795119670287274/posts/JBjQEzbWL5w
