On 12 July 2017 at 00:28, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>> >>> 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". >> >> actually the above is not that easy to do, because google's street >> view will first of all need to have ground imagery for a location. > > Don't worry too much about streetview per se. > > What I really think we should support is just a way to "escape" from > the regular map window, regardless of what embedded map we are using. > > Right now it's a bit painful to extract GPS coordinates from our data > - I actually just end up always doing a "git grep" over the git > repository instead if I need it. > > So what would be lovely is just *any* fairly standard way to get the > data from the currently selected dive points. Not so much for > something very specific like streetview, but just in general. > > Then, if you can feed it into an external source, that external source > might be just a regular google maps browser window, and then you can > pick the streetview thing on your own if that is what you want. > > But sometimes you might want to instead of a "search around here for > good restaurants" or whatever. > > So the point is not streetview per se, as much as the generic issue of > "I have one or more dive sites, I want to just interact with something > else than purely an embedded map in the app". >
i see, for both solutions we can add a context menu inside the mapview with extra functionality, such as: - copy location to clipboard (sexagesimal / decimal) - open location in external source - stats for visible markers - etc in terms of complexity, the context menu would be harder for me to do over google maps (HTML / JavaScript), while the Qt Location (QML) one should be trivial. lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface