QtLocation map updates

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 30 July 2017 at 21:11, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 30 July 2017 at 20:34, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Here is some progress for the transition to QtLocation based map.
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>> > Hello,
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>> > according to my 2 minute testing, this look quite promising. I spotted
>> > one bug when zooming. See following screencast of the issue (available
>> > only for 2 days for download, then automatically deleted)
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>> > https://expirebox.com/download/b21b9931be2478ee1557f7a217f90594.html
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>> > At certain zoom level the locations jump a bit of the correct
>> > position. The two location markers at south-west side of the island
>> > jump to the shore of the bigger island on west, and Babylon and Blue
>> > House sites end up being sand digging.
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Miika, can you give me the coordinates of the two small island dives,
so that i can report the ESRI bug?

>> ha!
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>> to me it looks like on some of the zoom levels the tiles are wrong
>> (i.e. dives jumping to the bigger island).
>> sadly, it's out of my control as we don't have an API to magically fix
>> this. the only thing we can do is report a bug...
>> ...and perhaps start thinking about a google maps provider.
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>> tomaz, suggested a plugin for this, but it introduces more
>> dependencies and third party code not maintained by Qt.
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> The plugin is just a fetcher for google map tiles.
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i was wondering if would it be easier to write our own plugin.
also, are there examples on how to integrate the already made plugin
google maps plugin?

lubomir
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