[Digikam-devel] GPS/gpssync

[Gilles Caulier]

On Monday 02 October 2006 13:03, Arnd Baecker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> to start with, the new gpssync is brilliant!!!
>
> On my machine there seem to be, however, some small problems:
>
> - there are always scrollbars (only a very small region is missing,
>   and this seems to be independent of the window size)
>   (I can send you a screenshot if you want)

Yes thanks you. Do not post on ML (limited to 40Kb), but give us an url.

> - resizing the window, the map is sometimes not shown

Google maps is only supported by konqueror from KDE > 3.5 ! Also i recommend 
you to use a Safari browser id with goggle.com 

> - Zooming in a little and then
>   dragging with the mouse vertically, there is no download of new
>   tiles (just a grey area is displayed)
>   Horizontally, this works without problem.

Require KDE > 3.5

>
>   Zooming in/out it may also happen the marker ends up in a grey
>   area without a map.

idem.

>
> - Trying to change between Map/Satellite/Hybrid view
>   reproducibly displays nothing anymore from then on.

Fixed by Marcel today on svn.

>
> - After having successfully applied a position to an image,
>   the embedded GPS display (in digikam), only shows
>   "(nan, nan)"

Ah. i'm currenlty fix this problem. Don't use current Exiv2 from svn in 
production, but only 0.11. This weekend, Andreas (Exiv2 coordinator), have 
changed the output format of latitude/longitude (more user readable).

>
> Anyway, overall it looks very very nice - great work!
>
> Now for me only off-line usage (e.g. using the maps from
> http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=7131)
> and user-supplied maps (with a lot of detail)
> would be my next wishes on the GPS side...

For that, some part of "Marble" source code can be used :

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2412

But before i would to cleanup current implementation.

>
> Many thanks for all your work,

Thanks to support digiKam project.

Gilles