[PR] MapWidget enhancements

Lubomir I. Ivanov neolit123 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 16:15:36 PDT 2017


added a new PR.

i think i found QDeclarativeMap (QML Map) bugs, so i try to work around those.

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The QML Map has a couple of methods - toCoordinate(someQPointF) and
fromCoordinate(someQGeoCoordinate). Ideally, if one passes a point to
toCoordinate() and then attempts to convert the resulted coordinates
back to the point, the same point in the Map view port with minimal error
should be retrieved. That's not always the case - e.g. near
47.400200 -123.142066, which means that the methods are not exactly
*reliable* and there might be Map class bugs at hand.

The new zoom-in and zoom-out improvements try to work around the above:
- for both centerOnRectangle() and centerOnCoordinate(), if no good
zoom-out level is found (newZoomOut), the zoom-out is set to the default
value of defaultZoomOut. In practice, this prevents the case where the map
does not zoom-out at all when going from one place to another
- centerOnRectangle() now uses rectangle diagonals to estimate a fit,
instead of checking if 2 points (top-left and bottom-right) are visible
in the viewport. The usage of fromCoordinate() was giving bad results
in this case and comparing distances (diagonals) is more reliable
but more expensive on the CPU.

Due to the inconsistencies of toCoordinate() and fromCoordinate()
the dynamic zoom-in and zoom-out are still not ideal, but the current
implementation is somewhat usable with decent accuracy.
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lubomir
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