[Digikam-devel] GPS/gpssync

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi,

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Gilles Caulier wrote:

> 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.

http://www.physik.tu-dresden.de/~baecker/tmp/gilles/gpssync_google.png

> > - 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.

Is  3.5.4> 3.5 (I am thinking of the upcoming debian etch,
to which I might switch earlier ;-).

> > - Trying to change between Map/Satellite/Hybrid view
> >   reproducibly displays nothing anymore from then on.
>
> Fixed by Marcel today on svn.

I will try again later.

> > - 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).

OK, I went for the full bleeding edge ;-)

> > 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

Oh - this looks very nice indeed.

Thanks a lot,

Arnd