On 11 July 2017 at 20:58, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> > >> but the ESRI implementation inside QtLocation supports offline mode. > > The ESRI data seems good enough. It did sound like you had worries > about the actual implementation? >
i have at least one Qt Location API question related to the markers, but currently i'm using a workaround and it seems to work OK. >> so Marble seems to have the best of both worlds for now - google tiles >> and offline support. > > Yeah, but Marble has been a big painpoint too. So practicalities of > actually implementing this and maintaining it should be pretty high. > > One thing that would be good - and that Marble doesn't do all that > well - is to have better integration with the outside world. For > example, I've occasionally wanted a "escape to real google maps" just > for things like location sharing (and you mentioned streetview earlier > - not an issue when you're on a reef in palau, but it *is* a potential > issue when you're looking at the parking lot of a shore-dive). > > So Marble has its good sides, but it has certainly its own share of > painpoints too. > Qt Location does not support street view, so i guess that if we decide to go with the Qt Location solution we need to enable opening street view inside a new browser window, which runs google maps and requires internet access - e.g. when clicked a marker on the Qt Location map we can show a button "street view for this location". lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface