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

Stefan Steiniger sstein at geo.uzh.ch
Tue Jul 30 12:22:29 PDT 2013


Hi Pavel,

yes, I get the weekly reports through the list. So no worries ;)
I probably was thinking a bit about later, in case you may keep working 
on this after GSoC, and/or in case you are sending some other summary 
emails that do not go over this list, e.g. to OSM dev lists.

best,
stefan

Am 30.07.13 13:01, schrieb Pavel Melnikov:
> Hello Stefan.
> Thanks for interest in the project.
> Actually I was thinking that anyone on the mail list is getting my
> weekly reports, but from now on I'll include you to recipients.
> The map part in OpenSurveyor is not started fully yet, I only embedded a
> osmdroid's MapVew into my application and it shows a map in a Fragment,
> saving its state. Project goals concerning maps have not been started
> yet, so it's topic for further work.
>
> Best wishes,
>     Pavel.
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Stefan Steiniger <sstein at geo.uzh.ch
> <mailto:sstein at geo.uzh.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Pavel,
>
>     yep - thanks for your input too.
>     I have actually been looking at your project too to see if we can
>     get some ideas for the OTP client.
>     However, maybe if you start with OSMdroid that may give us some
>     oportunity to check out in the future how you got things to work.
>
>     The OTP android client has its own objectives, that are fairly
>     different from your client. We need a real good place (landmark)
>     search and the type of background map we use is not super important
>     at the moment. Except maybe for possible map location errors, since
>     OTP actually uses OSM data to create the street-/path graphs. So
>     using OSM background tiles is best.
>
>     Anyway, we will keep looking at your work :)
>     So if you want, also send updates to us: Vreixo and me.
>
>     stefan
>
>     Am 29.07.13 09:42, schrieb 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 <mailto:vreixo at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:vreixo at gmail.com <mailto: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
>         <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
>         <mailto:positron96 at gmail.com>
>              <mailto:positron96 at gmail.com <mailto: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
>         <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 <mailto:vreixo at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:vreixo at gmail.com <mailto: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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