Hi again,
tile creation has finished, we're serving 105 GB now. Since the stable
releases load the new tiles fine (just don't make use of the new
features) I merged the new tiles with the stable ones. Marble Maps
version 1.1 is now available as public beta from [1] and via direct APK
download at [2]. I plan to release it soon unless crash reports or
similar serious issues are reported.
Regards,
Dennis
[1] https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.kde.marble.maps
[2]
http://files.kde.org/marble/downloads/android/MarbleMaps-1.1.0_24.apk
Am 04.02.2017 14:39, schrieb Dennis Nienhüser:
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
