libkgeomap

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Happy New Year to all in this room.

Thanks Micheal for all details about libkgeomap history, especially
GoogleMaps rules.

Just few words about libkgeomap KF5 port :

- Library is fully ported as QT5/KF5 and sound work fine.
- Alin Marin Elen <alinm.elena at gmail.com> currently work on
KGeoMap::HTMLWidget class to port from KHTML to Qt5::Webkit.

All details are listed in this wiki page section :

https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Digikam/CodingSprint2014#Libkgeomap

Michael, if you have some free time to review code later, it will be
great. Thanks in advance.

Best

Gilles Caulier

2015-01-04 20:21 GMT+01:00 Michael G. Hansen <mike at mghansen.de>:
> On 03.01.2015 15:09, Tobias Leupold wrote:
>>>
>>> IMHO, the real question is, shouldn't that pointless wrapper be
>>> deprecated
>>> in favor of just using Marble directly?
>>
>>
>> Can marble be used in an identical way as libkgeomap, as a QWidget only
>> displaying a map with not only coordinates but also photo thumbnails
>> (grouping
>> the coordinates when the zoom factor is too low to display them all etc.),
>> GPX
>> tracks and so on?
>>
>> If so, we (at KPA) should rethink our implementation (but I don't think
>> that
>> libkgeomap has been written for no reason ...). But after all, it's a
>> eligible
>> question (which surely can be answered by Gilles Caulier and/or Michael
>> Hansen).
>
>
> In the beginning, there was code in digikam that displayed and grouped
> thumbnails of images on Marble, while in kipi-plugins there was a
> KHTML-based viewer for Google Maps, which only showed a marker at the
> position of the photo. Since we wanted both Marble and Google Maps in both
> places, we went the natural way of turning that code into a library so that
> it can be used in both places without duplicating code. Originally, we also
> wanted to show a web-based OpenStreetMap directly via KHTML to allow for
> more interaction with OpenStreetMap's layering options, but that option was
> abandoned because of incompatibilities between KHTML and OpenStreetMap's
> OpenLayer Javascript code at that time.
>
>> Apart from that: If Google's terms of service allow using Google maps like
>> libkgeomap does, I think it should be a decision of the user which map
>> he/she
>> wants to see.
>
>
> From the way I understood the terms of service, yes, this usage is ok. We
> also had a Google Summer of Code student work on the library, and the
> project was not rejected by Google. Of course I would rather see a
> collection of open data satellite imagery to be used instead, but I could
> not find any yet.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael Hansen
>