libchamplain

As announced today at linux.conf.au, Empathy will soon support publishing your physical location to your contacts, and reading your contact’s location.  This feature has been developed over the past months by Alban Crequy, Daffyd Harries and myself.  ... [More] While the first version will be limited to automatic location discovery with Geoclue, future versions will allow more [...] [Less]

Libchamplain is a C library providing a ClutterActor that displays maps such as OpenStreetMap.  You can also have markers.  These markers can be animated or not and are interactive. Libchamplain-gtk is a Gtk widget that wraps around libchamplain’s ... [More] ClutterActor. This release introduces small API additions from contributors and fix to 0.2.7’s changes. Grab the release here. Pictured above [...] [Less]

So seems like geotagging is the cool new feature!  It is nice to know that EOG already supports it! I guess I was right on time when I wrote the map view plugin some months ago! Now, who wants to write the code needed in F-Spot to display the pictures on a map with libchamplain? I [...]

So Nikon has a geotagger in its sleeves and it is soon to be available.  Unfortunately it won’t be compatible with my D40.  Reading the review and the technical specifications, I am not so sorry. The device seems small, fast and it doesn’t required its own power source.  That’s the pros.  The con is that you [...]

As more and more people are using and asking for features in libchamplain, I face a difficult challenge getting the current design to do new extraordinary things. Here are the top features that can (or can’t) only be hacked into the current design: To be able to replace the Clutter front end; To have a global state for [...]

I am announcing the release of libchamplain 0.2.7. Libchamplain is a ClutterActor to display maps.  Libchamplain-gtk is a Gtk widget wrapping it. Enhancements: Double clicking on the map will now zoom and recenter. When resizing a ChamplainView ... [More] , the centered content will still be centered after the resizing.  Can be disabled. The Map’s license is displayed by default on the [...] [Less]

The code to display maps in EOG for you geotagged photos is now merged into EOG Plugins. You can grabe the code there: svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/eog-plugins/trunk eog-plugin To build it, you will need libchamplain and libchamplain 0.2.2 or later. You can find 2 sample geotagged images on the bugzilla.

In this release of your favorite Gtk Map Widget you get: Bug fixes: zoom-level property changes are notified if changed when setting a new map-source; Markers are now ordered from top to bottom instead of first added, first drawn using ... [More] ChamplainLayer.  This is more natural to the eye. Less exported symbols; A less error prone library (data passed as parameter [...] [Less]

I’ve been very busy in the last 2 weeks (with my brother’s emergency surgery and the work), but I did manage to work on libchamplain and code new features. I finally fixed the limited zoom bug I had (it did take me more than one try!). There were some glitches with small zoom levels (where the [...]

I was planning to announce this on Monday, after a week-end to clean things up, but since another widget with similar features have been announced today, I think I should announce mine as well! So libchamplain is a Gtk widget that aims to display rasterized maps (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and others) using Clutter to have nice [...]