Re: Question about map sources.

[Jiří Techet <techet gmail com>]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Robert Park <rbpark exolucere ca> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
>> Cool - I've just installed it under Ubuntu using your ppa. You should
>> add dependency on gir1.2-gconf-2.0 package because it was not
>> installed by default on my system and your application ended with
>> exception.
>
> I'll let my debian packager know about this, but I'm not that worried
> about it because I actually just finished porting to GSettings, so
> GConf is no longer used ;-) Future versions won't have this repo.
>
>>> Are there any other map sources out there not included in the factory?
>>> Is there any value in me adding opencyclemap manually, since it's just
>>> a stopgap until you release the fix anyway?
>>
>> Actually I think it's a good idea to create their own map sources for
>> any serious application instead of relying on libchamplain's factory.
>> As you can see, tile sources can appear/disappear/change URL quite
>> quickly and people will have different versions of libchamplain
>> installed on their systems, each with a different (possibly outdated)
>> map sources so your application will work differently on each of the
>> systems. By creating your own map sources you get independent of a
>> particular libchamplain version and it is also much more flexible for
>> you when e.g. the URL of a map source changes.
>
> Ok, I will consider adding opencyclemap manually. Just so long as I
> can use factory.register() in order to continue simply iterating over
> factory.get_registered() to build the  menu of available app sources,
> then it won't be particularly onerous for me.

Or you can completely skip the factory and put the sources into python
list or dict and iterate over it.

Jiri