[Qt5-feedback] Qt5 & QtLocation

[David Boddie]

[The original got stuck in a moderation queue somewhere. Reposting...]

On Wed Jun 8 14:22:59 CEST 2011, John Layt wrote:

> I want to raise the topic of QtLocation in Qt5.  Currently QtLocation is
> part of QtMobility but is equally useful on the desktop and is something of
> interest to KDE.

I'm treating QtLocation as part of Qt 5 unless someone tells me otherwise:

  https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtlocation

> I'm wondering what the plans are with regards to properly supporting the
> desktop platforms in QtLocation? 
>
> There's a few areas that I think need to be addressed:

[...]

> 4) Are there any plans for an OpenStretMap plugin and if not would one be
> accepted?  The Ovi Maps plugin is unusable for many people due to the terms
> of use.

I saw a video of your talk at Camp KDE and agree with many of the points you
made.

> There are a couple of external projects to provide an OSM plugin
> but it would be far better if a single implementation was shipped in
> QtLocation.  I think plugins for other providers like Google or Yahoo
> belong more in a Qt Addon.

My impression was that the lack of a bundled OSM plugin was a political
issue, so once again I agree, though there's probably nothing wrong with
the existing implementations. One of the things the an OSM plugin is
supposed to do, however, is to limit the number of concurrent requests to
the server, and I'm not sure that they do that. (I have a plugin that does.)

David
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David Boddie
Senior Technical Writer
Nokia, Qt