[Marble-devel] Re: Platform 11 Discussions

[John Layt]

On Friday 03 Jun 2011 18:00:38 John Layt wrote:
> 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.

I started a thread on the Qt5 list at 

http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt5-feedback/2011-June/000476.html

An interesting reply came from the QtLocation maintainer:

http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt5-feedback/2011-June/000501.html

Cheers!

John.