Feature request: Offline map tile server alternative

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Please report this wish in digiKam bugzilla. It's better than a
mailing list. Don't forget to reports all points from this mail.

The components is "Geolocation/Engine".

https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=digikam

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

Le dim. 17 mars 2024 à 16:33, <johnmcd at ix.netcom.com> a écrit :
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> I’ve pretty new to digiKam, but I’ve managed to get all of my pictures into it and I’m in the process of geotagging all of the older ones that don’t have geo info in the metadata, which is pretty simple to do on my home system. However, I also have a use case where I want to be able to use digiKam in the field on my MS Surface Go tablet to manage pictures I take with my DSLR camera (which doesn’t support GPS). Gilles Caulier on this mailing list pointed me to using Marble to support offline maps for digiKam (thank you for that), which I’ve spent quite a bit of time getting set up. While Marble is a great map package, it’s still a work in progress, very resource intensive for any reasonable number of offline maps, and it can be pretty complex to set up.
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> I was wondering if it would be possible to add support for something like mapsforgesrv (https://github.com/telemaxx/mapsforgesrv ) as an offline maps source. It’s very easy to set up and run – just download the jar file and whatever .map files you want from mapsforge (https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/download.mapsforge.org/maps/v5/) and run it with ‘java -jar mapsforgesrv-fatjar.jar -p 8080 -m "massachusetts.map, new-hampshire.map"’. In order to access the mapsforgesrv tile ‘server’ you just need to point the app to ‘http://localhost:8080/{z}/{x}/{y}.png’.
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> I’m sure there are a ton of planned and requested features, but I thought this might be useful for some folks.
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> Thanks
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> John