[Marble-devel] Busy and please give me a quick update

[Inge Wallin]

On Thursday 13 September 2007 12:56, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> I'd also like to point out some issues related to GPS/GPX:
>
> - The whole GPS/GPX functionality needs to get enabled now (So no #ifdefs).
> Andrew: could you enable all your code in SVN? :-)

The same is true of all the KML_GSOC #ifdefs, isn't it?  I have thought of 
doing that, but I postponed it because I hadn't talked to the people 
involved.  So, what do you say, could I just enable it?  The time is right 
for it now, I think.

> - We really need to add some code that adjusts the Position and Altitude
> ("Zoom") to the bounding box of the GPS file. Otherwise it rather turns
> into a "hide and seek" game.
>
> - IIIRC I still get screen updates/redraws even if the GPS position doesn't
> get changed.
>
> - This file didn't work for me: http://www.topografix.com/fells_loop.gpx.
> Andrew: could you have a look why it doesn't work?
>
> Together with some other people who are more proficient and have more
> experience with XML parsers I had a closer look at the KML source code. I
> think it would be best to merge GPX and KML parsing (and later on GeoRSS)
> into a common framework in the next few weeks. Someone from the KSVG
> project sent me some "prototype" code already that has some improvements
> over the current source code we have. I'll write about details in another
> mail later on. But don't let that keep you from searching for potential
> bugs in the current GPX implementation.
>
> Ingwa / Andrew: Are there any more things that need to get ironed out
> before we release Marble 0.5 / KDE 4 Beta 3 ?

I think it's fine, but the projection issues need to be taken care of.

> Torsten

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