On 12 July 2017 at 01:02, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> It sounds like the Qt Location one might be better, then - supports
> offline caching, has reasonable (although perhaps not best-in-class)
> satellite imagery, and allows us to escape to an external browser
> easily..
>
> Are there any issues on mobile where one or the other would be much preferred?
>

we haven't touched the mobile subject, but to my understanding the Qt
Location solution should just work on mobile (untested by me for the
time being).
while the google maps solution requires a browser engine. we are
planning to move away from the deprecated QWebKit to QWebEngine, but
Thiago mentioned that QWebEngine has licensing issues on iOS and
QWebKit has to be used there, which means that we might have to use
QWebKit if we want a map in the mobile version.

so given these complications, Qt Location might be the right choice in
terms of eventual mobile support.

lubomir
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