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

[Pavel Melnikov]

Ok, thanks for the info on the problem! I'll start with osmdroid, and if it
does not suit, will change to google maps v2.

Best wishes,
  Pavel

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Vreixo González <vreixo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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