[digiKam-users] Open Street Maps query not working

[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 1 juillet 2018 19:58:59 CEST loup+digikamusers at lo-cal.org wrote:
> I have not tried it with the pre-release 6.0.0 build, but it used to
> work fine with both 5.6.0 and 5.9.0 for many months before it broke, so
> I don't see how the Marble build could affect it. Especially with 5.9.0,
> which is an appimage on my system (5.6.0 is the Ubuntu package version),
> so everything should be bundled and static in the 5.9.0, if I understand
> how appimages work correctly (which I might not).
> 
> So can anyone confirm that OSM queries are currently working with the
> 5.9.0 appimage release of digikam?

It's perhaps not so much a bug in Marble, as a change at the OSM side (switch 
from http:// to https://), see : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394517
But even in that case, it's not something the Digikam developers could correct


> On 07/01/2018 10:15 AM, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> > On dimanche 1 juillet 2018 15:51:26 CEST loup+digikamusers at lo-cal.org 
wrote:
> >> I used to use the OSM query in the "Edit Geolocation" feature all the
> >> time, but sometime around March of 2018 the query stopped returning any
> >> results.  When I type in a search string, the results box remains empty,
> >> no matter what I search for.  GeoNames search still works.  This is
> >> occurring in Digikam 5.6.0 and 5.9.0.
> >> 
> >> Has anyone else experienced this?  Does anyone know how to solve it?
> > 
> > I noticed the same thing in the stand-alone version of Marble (which is
> > what Digikam uses to display the maps), so my guess is that it is an
> > upstream problem in Marble.