libkgeomap

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 15 de desembre de 2014, a les 21:57:05, Gilles Caulier va 
escriure:
> libkgeomap is a wrapper between marble for local map, OpenStreetMap,
> and GoogleMaps, to display geolocated items place over a world map.
> 
> A widget is provided, and collection of tools to process :
> 
> - Reverse Geocoding,
> - Tracks management,
> - Selection over map to process searches.
> 
> It used in digiKam to :
> 
> - show geolocation info about selected items from icon view,
> - show a map with region selector to process searches
> - show a big map view to replace icon-view by a map with all items
> superimposed.
> 
> It used too, in kipi-plugins with GPSSync tool to :
> 
> - Correlate items with a GPX track
> - Made GPS track
> - Perform reverse Geocoding using Internet server.

So kipi-plugins depends on digikam?

Random questions:
 * Where does marble come in?
 * How is google maps handled? AFAIR you can't just embed it like that in an 
app.

Cheers,
  Albert


> 
> Project page :
> 
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/libs/libkgeomap
> 
> API Doc :
> 
> http://api.kde.org/extragear-api/libs-apidocs/libkgeomap/libkgeomap/html/ind
> ex.html
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2014-12-15 21:46 GMT+01:00 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> > El Diumenge, 14 de desembre de 2014, a les 18:57:44, Tobias Leupold va
> > 
> > escriure:
> >> Hi list!
> >> 
> >> recently, I requested to move libkface from extragear/libs to to
> >> kdegraphics/libs, because KPhotoAlbum began to use it as the first
> >> non-Digikam program. This has been done in the meantime and now, we have
> >> a
> >> Digikam- independent libkface release to be found in
> >> unstable/applications
> >> (which can be used by distributors to create Digikam-independent libkface
> >> packages). Thanks again for the move :-)
> >> 
> >> Recently, we started to use another library from Digikam in KPhotoAlbum,
> >> libkgeomap. Would it be possible (of course after some review etc.) to do
> >> the same with this library, for the same reasons? Probably,
> >> kdegraphics/libs would not be the right place for libkgeomap, as it
> >> depends
> >> on Marble, but kde-edu.
> >> 
> >> Gilles Caulier from Digikam recently suggested that I asked for that,
> >> because apparently a lot of patching has been done to libkgeomap so that
> >> a
> >> stand-alone library release would be possible. I'm sure that the
> >> libkgeomap
> >> maintainers (esp. Gilles Caulier) will gladly change what has to be
> >> changed
> >> to get an independent release, and we would get the same benefits of it
> >> as
> >> the libkface move made.
> >> 
> >> What do you think?
> > 
> > What does libkgeomap do?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> >> 
> >> Cheers, Tobias