the marble (map) replacement dilemma

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Tue Jul 11 15:02:14 PDT 2017


On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at 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?

              Linus


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