[Owncloud] progress on map app

Thu Jun 20 16:00:03 UTC 2013

To keep everyone in the loop it’s best if we have this discussion in
the open, in case someone wants to participate. :)
I also included Andrei, who works on integrating Marbe and ownCloud.

I think it’s pretty obvious we should collaborate here on _one_ simple
»Maps« app, using open formats and sync with Marble. Including sharing
is important as well, so you can work together on routes, or have
shared favorites, or just send a public link to a place.

Design-wise full emphasis on the content, which is the map, favorites,
and routes. Hence the map needs to use the full app space, without a
permanent sidebar. Or rather, the sidebar should appear contextually,
and either be slightly transparent or have a bit of margin to the
edges so the map is always visible even on the left side. Take a look
at the new Google Maps if you haven’t seen it yet.

You folks should get a repo at https://github.com/owncloud/maps and
start working together there, using Appframework as base.

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Qingping Hou <dave2008713 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:20 PM, eMerzh <merzhin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On the leaflet topic:
>>
>> Great to here you are getting familliar with leaflet api and the angular one
>> :) To display a route, leaflet can easily draw lines.... you can check an old
>> page i did some years ago : http://bmaron.net/rando/ (may not be the cleanest
>> / up-to-datest code ... but it can give you ideas)
>>
>
> Thanks a lot, that's exactly the demo I need!
>
> BTW: do you also often do hiking in your free time?
>
>> For the source of the route, calculating it in owncloud seems really hard so,
>> i suggest to use 1 (or more?) external projects like
>> http://project-osrm.org/ or OpenRouteService
>>
>
> Yeah, that's the way to go :) So my plan is:
>  * have Leaflet directive watch the route information in scope
>
>  * fetch route information from 3rd party and update the scope
>
>  * cross fingers and hope Leaflet directive update it automatically on the map
>    view
>
>> On the Marble GSOC topic : Let's see what others have to say .... but for me
>> it seems to be a little weird to have a special marble app and a different
>> map app ...  If the marble app can't display a map without our map app they
>> still somewhat rely on us so i don't really see the point...  But i also can
>> hear that they don't want to screw the work of a student if another fail to
>> give what's expected ...  so let's say that it seems reasonable to start with
>> 2 separated apps  but i don't see this a long term solution ... so it may be
>> interresting to hear what they need when we design our external api and
>> features.
>
> I haven't get reply from their student regarding what features they will
> include in the Marble app yet. Maybe they will add a map also. But if they do
> so, we will have a big overlap and it's waste of labour ;p
>
> In fact, I think the sync only Marble app does make sense. For example, the
> user might only want to backup/sync their Marble data in OC. In that case, they
> don't need to install a huge map app.
>
>>
>> On the Hook system topic :
>> Yeah hook system seems more appropriate to have other apps registering there
>> points to the map app ...
>> Maybe the JS hook can be used as we do with file actions?
>> For this and app framework , Ping Raydiation
>
> OH, I overlooked the JS hook, will take a look at it :)
>
> As for the PHP Hook, yeah, I have discussed it with Raydiation on IRC.
> I guess he is busy writing paper now ;p
>
> Have a great weekend too :D
>
> Best,
> Qingping

> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Qingping Hou <dave2008713 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Brice,
>>
>> I have been playing with AngularJs this week, really impressed by it's
>> design ;)
>>
>> == Leaflet
>>
>> So I am planning to use angular-leaflet-directive in the app:
>> http://tombatossals.github.com/angular-leaflet-directive/
>>
>> The directive is still very simple now, it only supports:
>>   * one marker binding
>>   * center view point binding
>>   * zoom level binding
>>
>> I have submitted couple of patches to it and will keep extend it in
>> following
>> days. Things that I plan to add includes:
>>   * multiple marker binding (can be used to show a set of bookmarked
>> points)
>>   * path biding
>>
>> BTW, I have a question on leaflet regarding routing: what's best way for
>> me to
>> display a route on the map?
>>
>>
>> == Marble GSoC collabration
>>
>> I have talked with KDE side regarding the possiblity of collabrating.
>>
>> My original plan was I write the OC server side for marble and they focus
>> on
>> client side.
>>
>> However, it truns out that their mentor had really bad experience
>> collabrating
>> with other GSoC project and does not want to depend on other projecs this
>> time.
>> So we (me and marble's potential student) decide to collabrate in other
>> way.
>>
>> They will still write a Marble app for OC, and our map app will interact
>> with
>> their app:
>>   * pull data from Marble app and display in map app
>>   * update data in Marble app so update sync, it can be updated in Marble
>>
>> How do you think about that?
>>
>>
>> == Hook system
>>
>> I have looked into it a bit. So here is my understanding of the system,
>> correct
>> me if I am wrong ;p
>>
>> * Every class can register a method with an event
>> * Every class can emit it's own events
>> * When a event is emitted, methods registered with that event will ba
>> called
>>
>> My question is this system is great for controlling other apps in map app.
>> But
>> when an app want to pull data from map app can we still use the hook
>> system?
>> Say the contact app wants to fetch a small embeded map and display it
>> inside
>> contact's info page.
>>
>> Also since we will be using appframework and it's current API hasn't
>> provide
>> method that wraps around the hook api yet, I need to firtst submit pathes
>> to
>> appframework. Will work on that in following days.
>>
>>
>> === Misc
>>
>> BTW: should I also CC to Jan and Raydiatin next for email regarding GSoC
>> project?
>
>