[SoC] GSoC'13 OpenTripPlanner-for-Android Weekly Report #6

[Vreixo González]

I don't think it works without a key and this are the ToS
https://developers.google.com/maps/terms. For me are not a big problem as
they let me maintain the application open source compliant.

MapQuest API seems very similar to OSMdroid one, for the code that I have
seen in your link, with the map activity, map view, map controllers the
implementation of MyLocation, etc. The only thing that I have seeing
different is the route manager, but maybe just the programmers in OTP
client took a different approach and something similar is also present in
OSMdroid.  All problems related to fragments and lifecycle will still be
there.

Kind regards,

Vreixo


2013/7/29 Pavel Melnikov <positron96 at gmail.com>

> Thanks for your reply Vreixo!
>
> Do Google maps work without API key? I do not plan to use Google tiles and
> google services at all, but I suspect I'll need to obtain a key and sign
> some ToS anyway.
> Also, there is a Mapquest maps api (
> http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/featured/android-maps-api/documentation),
> any idea if it's useful?
>
> Best wishes,
>    Pavel
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Vreixo González <vreixo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Pavel,
>>
>> I have chose this API because is much newer and offers much more
>> functionality. OSMdroid API is what was used until now in the app and is a
>> replacement of Google's API V1 with almost the same features.
>>
>> One of the principal advantages for me is that with new API some
>> operations are much easier and elegant. It has an automatic MyOverlay layer
>> to display user's position, markers added and configured in one
>> instruction, the same for route lines, better controls to move the camera,
>> etc.
>> This things could be done with OSMdroid API but required much more code.
>>
>> This API uses a fragment natively to display the map and takes care of
>> all lifecycle steps regarding this (no need of save and restore map state
>> onPause and onResume). The fragment is much more adecuate to work with it
>> than the old activity and also is better for future integration with Action
>> bars and other components.
>>
>> Also this maps are more nice to see, with the possibility to tilt, rotate
>> the map and the MyLocation and compass integrated. Also the possibility to
>> manage indoor mapping is interesting (in OTP there are some people working
>> on this).
>>
>> For what I have read people was really waiting for the new API and has a
>> lot of promissing features that I didn't have explored yet.
>>
>> The issues with the keys can provoke same time waste if you're not lucky
>> but after being configured there are no more problems and they don't
>> introduce any limitations and they produce usefull usage statistics.
>>
>> If you only want OSM tiles is very simple, just set map type to none and
>> add a TileOverlay with an OSM provider. Regarding tiles, I will let the two
>> options in OpenTripPlanner client.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Vreixo
>>
>
>
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