the marble (map) replacement dilemma

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 11 July 2017 at 19:50, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> So good satellite information is really important for these things. More so than the offline cacheability, which is just "a good thing to have because internet often sucks in those places".
>

here is a comparison between ESRI (from my test app) and google maps:
http://i.imgur.com/9iYjlqD.jpg

location is one of the northmost islands of Palau:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/8%C2%B005'37.0%22N+134%C2%B043'06.9%22E/@8.09361,134.716955,726m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d8.09361!4d134.718572

google seem to support at least one more zoom level and an overall
cleaner picture.
but the ESRI implementation inside QtLocation supports offline mode.
i've checked and i don't think QtLocation supports google map tiles as sources.

so Marble seems to have the best of both worlds for now - google tiles
and offline support.

lubomir
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