It's that time again, a new GNOME release is just around the corner. The news in Maps for GNOME 46 A lot of the new things we've been working on for the 46 release has already been covered, but here is few recaps. The new map style The map style used for the vector-based, client- … | Continue reading
As there was some interest and questions about my trip to Brussels and FOSDEM on Mastodon, I thought I should write down some notes and observations from the trip. This will not really be about FOSDEM itself as there's numerous other reports from the conference itself.TicketsI h … | Continue reading
It's only a couple of days left until that weekend of the week of the turn of month between January and February, and that means it's time again for FOSDEM, gathering FOSS entusiasts in Brussels, Belgium. And I will be there as well!There has been some nice improvements in Maps … | Continue reading
It's that time of the year again, near the winter solstice (or the summer dito in the southerm hemisphere), so I guess it's time for the yearly wrap-up blog post. And yeah, Santa Claus lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Despite some misinformed claims about the North Pole… There's bee … | Continue reading
The GNOME 45.0 release has just recently been published, and with it a new release of Maps. Accompaning the release is also a new stable version (1.1.0) of our libshumate map rendering library containing a lot of improvements to the client-side vector-based renderer.Many of the … | Continue reading
It's about time for the yearly (Northern Hemisphere) Summer Maps blog post. Since the release of 44.0 in March, aside from some fixes (like adding support for authentication HTTP headers in OpenTripPlanner plugin, as now needed by the Finnish Digitransit service) there has also … | Continue reading
So it's that time that occurs twice a year when we're approaching a new GNOME release, this time 44.In Maps there's been some polish touching up some of the rough edges in 43.x (from the GTK 4 port).For example keyboard navigation of the search results is back.Also, the focus ha … | Continue reading
As I was quite busy during the days before Christmas this year I didn't get time to write the traditional holidays Maps blog post.So I thought I should at least write a quick wrap-up of the happenings during 2022 before the end-of-year.As always, we started out in spring with a … | Continue reading
Just in time for the GNOME 43 release (the hard code freeze started this past weekend) the porting of Maps to GTK 4, using our new libshumate map rendering library has arrived at a working statusEarlier in the summer it became apparent that maintaining Maps using the technologie … | Continue reading
So, as tradition has it here's the (Northern Hemisphere) summer blog post about GNOME Maps.One large under-the-hood change I've made in Maps since last time is migrating the JS code to use ES6 modules.So, using “import” instead of referring modules as objects from the old-school … | Continue reading
Thought it was time to share some news on Maps again.After the 42.0 release I have been putting down some time to do some spring cleaning in Maps to slim down a little bit on the code.This would also mean less stuff to care about later on when porting to GTK4.First we have the “n … | Continue reading
The release of GNOME 42 (and the Maps release accomplishing it) is due in a little over a week.I have already covered some of the more visible updates for Maps 42.0 in the last update, such as the development profile (allowing to run directly from GNOME Builder, or install “nigh … | Continue reading
So it's that time of the year again and about time for an end-of-year post. Some news in Maps for the upcoming GNOME 42. Finally, we have ad... | Continue reading