> On Jul 3, 2017, at 2:34 PM, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Marble - we probably should start using a 2D map of sorts
> 
> Note that it's not just "2D map of sorts".
> 
> It needs to be something with good satellite imagery. Which presumably
> means "google maps" in practice.
> 
> I absolutely depend on seeing the actual reefs and shoreline features
> when I check (and occasionally fix) the location. At some point we
> tried some other map thing (I think the marine version of
> openstreetmaps) and it may have been acceptable for boating navigation
> needs, but certainly not for placing dive dites.

Correct. That's the main reason I'm loath to move away from Marble.
QtLocation is cute, but has maps, not satellite imagery. Not useful.
Same goes for openstreetmaps based stuff. It's got to be Bing or Google
satellite images.

/D
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