Choosing map providers problem

[Dirk Hohndel]

"Robert C. Helling" <helling at lmu.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just realized you can now change map providers in the preferences 
> dialog. Great.
>
> (Did I mention before that I miss a keyboard shortcut to open preferences 
> on Debian flavoured Linux? On the Mac, the usual Windmill-, works).
>
> But it seems this only semi-works. For some map sources (I remember google 
> satellite view) only the text appears but the images don't. And after some 
> playing (which is why I cannot remember) when I change the value and press 
> 'OK', subsurface thinks about a second but then closes the preferences 
> dialog without an effect, I still have the google maps map and that is 
> also selected when I reopen preferences.
>
> Restarting subsurface seems to help. But still, I get an empty map with 
> google satellite and only the lineart with google hybrid, anything with 
> Yahoo only gives me the OSM map.
>
> Maybe we should restrict the options to stuff that works?

Thanks - I never thought of that.

Strangely this all worked fine for me (actually, two maps didn't, so I
disabled them).

Can we get more data from other testers? Is this a geo-regional issue (I
was actually worried about that)? Is this an API key issue?

I will test this on all three platforms again tonight...

/D