[Interest] QtLocation questions

[Aaron McCarthy]

Hi,

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:53:10 Herbert Danzinger wrote:
> 2015-07-15 3:36 GMT+02:00 Aaron McCarthy <mccarthy.aaron at gmail.com>:
> > > - How to retrieve tiles from openseamap instead of openstreetmap (should
> > > it be a custom maptype from osm or a new plugin?)
> > 
> > There is currently no API that enables applications to specify a
> 
> different map
> 
> > tile URL. OpenSeaMap support could be added as a new custom map type, it
> 
> looks
> 
> > like all other infrastructure is shared with OSM.
> 
> Interesting. According to
> 
> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/location-plugin-osm.html
> 
> it should be possible to set the map tile url for OSM in a PluginParameter
> via setting osm.mapping.host to the desired url prefix.

So it does. This is a welcome recent addition.

Cheers,

-- 
Aaron McCarthy