[Marble-devel] Platform 11 Discussions

[John Layt]

Hi guys,

I'm at the Platform 11 sprint discussing how kdleibs is going to look after 
Qt5.  One thing we are discussing is geolocation and one idea that has been 
floated to having QGeoCoordinates and QGeoAddress moved from QtLocation into 
QtCore as fundamental data types, i.e. part of the Qt type system including 
QVariant and everything.  These classes would then become the common 
interchange and storage format that even the lowest level KDE libraries can 
use in their classes and api without needing QtLocation or libmarble to be 
installed at build or run time.

Note we are not suggesting Marble switch classes, or that the Qt classes 
should get all the advanced Marble features, or that QtLocation is the blessed 
gelocation framework, it's just a way to store and pass around basic geo data 
without needing a full geolocation/mapping library installed.  It also should 
give some flexability around the choice of geolocation frameworks.

Does this sound a good idea?  Is there anything in the Qt classes that you 
think should be changed, or any Marble features that would be good to add? Are 
there any other basic geodata classes you think should also be added?

Cheers!

John.