[Digikam-devel] [Bug 297297] Share/load maps from other mapping software

Michael G. Hansen mike at mghansen.de
Mon Apr 2 19:51:42 BST 2012


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297297

--- Comment #2 from Michael G. Hansen <mike at mghansen.de> ---
Hi,

in libkgeomap, we currently have two backends:

1. Marble, which is used for OpenStreetMap. Here, we let Marble do all the work
and I would like not to make any changes to that. Therefore, please re-file
this issue against Marble.

2. Google Maps is rendered as HTML via KHTML, so browser caching mechanisms of
KHTML should take effect. I do not know whether there are advanced options in
Google Maps to improve the caching. Direct access to the map tiles is IIRC not
permitted by their terms of service, and even GMapCatcher seems to have removed
support for Google Maps. Since I do not want to violate the TOS, I do not think
there is much we can do here...

Michael

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