Maps BOF

Agenda

• Project goal
  • What's our stated goal with Maps?
  • What new features do we want / not want to add?
• State of design
  • Quick walk-through of our current designs.
  • What's ...
    • good / bad?
    • missing?
    • high priority?
• Search-as-you-type
  • Current behaviour is suboptimal
  • What can be done?
• Layers
• Check-ins
• POI's
• Routing
• Map view (Champlain)
  • What's missing in Champlain to make Maps rock?
  • Zoom control
  • Kinetic move
  • Gestures
  • Client side rendering
  • World wrapping
  • Imported layers

Notes

Attending

• Zeeshan Ali (khattak)
• Mattias Bengtsson
• Dario Di Nucci
• Rishi Raj Singh
• Kalev Lember
• Andreas Nilsson
• Marc André
• Lasse Schuirmann

Project goal

• We don't intend to compete with google maps
• Our goal is to make an easy to use maps application, focused on
  • consuming data
  • integrating with the operating system
• Our non-goals are:
  • Advanced / out of the ordinary stuff (use Marble)
  • GIS-stuff (use QGIS)

State of design

• We're pretty much cool right now
• Needed designs
  • How to choose user location from the sidebar search form
  • Layers menu updates

Search as you type

• Mattias will investigate options and come up with a proposal and post it to the mailing list
• Regarding search in general, Lasse notes that we need better results taking your current position into account. This is definitely something we want.

Layers

• We want to be able to show / hide overlaid markers and geometries on the map in some way.
• Andreas and Mattias will work on designs for this.

Routing

• When the user location changes any from- to- and via-entry that's set to user location, changes to the new one as well
• We need designs for how to choose user location in the search form

MapView (Champlain)

• Client side rendering
  • Would make sense to have that before local caching of maps
  • Investigate on Mapnik
• Zoom control
  • We should redo it
  • better design
  • Easier to use on touch
  • Mattias will look into this
• Kinetic scroll
  • Dario will push a patch to bz
• Gestures
  • We want gestures support for pinch-zoom.
  • Maybe activate the sidebar via a swipe gesture.
  • Dario will add bugs
  • Better support for marker selection
  • Support drag and drop via gesture
    • For example from- to and viapoints during a route search
  • Support right click via gesture
• World wrapping
  • We want this.
  • Jonas has been working on patches. There's some tricky map math to fix.