Re: QT map widget

2010-06-11 Thread Marijn Kruisselbrink
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.

Marijn
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Re: Cmake + Armel + Fremantle = Segfault

2009-10-15 Thread Marijn Kruisselbrink
On Thursday 15 October 2009 19:12:14 Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Nathan Anderson
>
>  wrote:
> > According to a set of posts on this mailing list this is a known issue
> > (http://www.mail-archive.com/maemo-developers@maemo.org/msg20041.html);
> > but I didn't see a resolution to this.   As more developers start working
> > on moving packages to the fremantle OS, this is going to crop up more and
> > more.
> >
> > Can we come to some sort of conclusion on this so that we can get this
> > fixed asap?
>
> I just remembered why I didn't upload my modified cmake packages to
> fremantle extras-devel (besides the fact it being a x86 binary
> available through extras-devel for ARMEL looks strange). It was told
> that at some point a scratchbox update would contain cmake on it. I'm
> not sure if this is the case, or even if the fremantle autobuilder has
> this new version (if it exists).
I was told by some nokia person that the recently released SDK would indeed 
contain cmake, but it appears this didn't happen... I'll check what's going 
on here...

Marijn
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