libchamplain

One of the things I learned about at SOTM, is the existence of walking-papers.org. This tool renewed my interest of mapping around my house in order to create an higher quality map. During SOTM, we were often presented with examples where OpenStreetMap was more accurate and more detailed than commercially available data. [...]

libchamplain’s development was not blocked by the never ending delays in Clutter 1.0’s release. But we were waiting for 1.0 with eager.  And now the results are in.  Clutter 1.0 introduces many changes that simplified libchamplain’s code and solved ... [More] some of our long standing issues at the same time. Taking opportunity of the new introduced animations [...] [Less]

I am in beautiful Amsterdam since Thursday attending the State of the Map 2009. It is a nice conference, but having attended only free software conferences so far I was up for some cultural shocks.  First of all, everyone here has an iPhone, a Mac and a twitter account.  I signed up for one to be [...]

Last January, I announced Geolocation in Empathy.  All pending branches have now been merged and released in Empathy 2.27.3. It took quite a lot of time to finalize it because we were quite busy and quite frankly while this is sexy, it isn’t a very important feature in Empathy :-).  In the following screenshots, you’ll discover [...]

I am proud to announce the release of libchamplain 0.3, the first development release toward 0.4.  libchamplain is a map widget.  It is the work of many months (as far as November) and many contributors since FOSDEM.  Here is a short list of what you get: Support for proxies Support for custom map sources A way to list [...]

In the race to the 0.3 development release, we are reviewing the API to see it is nice to use, bindable and most of all intuitive to g* coders.  But sometimes, it is hard to find out how to do it well: comments on this particular issue would be appreciated. ChamplainView is the map view that [...]

There will be a Google Summer of Code project for libchamplain - your Clutter based Map Widget for your Clutter or Gtk based applications. This project will be realized by Simon Wenner.  He will be working on getting the map rendered locally (using OpenStreetMap xml data) as opposed to downloading the pre-rendered tiles as libchamplain [...]

libchamplain is a map widget for your application. I’ve just tagged some bugs or enhancements with the gnome-love keyword.  If you ever wanted to contribute to libchamplain, I think these bugs should be rather simple to fix/implement. In other news, I selected a list of bugs and features that needs to be fixed before a 0.4 release [...]

After this (IMHO) successful presentation at FOSDEM, people spontaneously offered their help.  Many more showed their interest into the ideas or to use it.  Let’s see what is developing from that. For the new readers, libchamplain is a Clutter based ... [More] map displaying widget.  It intends to be a light embeddable map widget for all applications with [...] [Less]

This week-end, I presented a talk at FOSDEM about how “Bringing geolocation into GNOME”.  While giving some background definitions and ideas for geolocation, it mostly covered what are technologies currently available to achieve these goals. I have ... [More] the impression that the talk was well received, it certainly boosted my interest into spending long nights infront of [...] [Less]