Re: gnome-maps Links share with Viking

[Mattias Bengtsson <mattias jc bengtsson gmail com>]

On sön, 2013-08-04 at 15:28 +0200, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:

> I've just discovered your Maps project. I'm really happy to see such a
> project for Gnome.
>
>
> Don't know if you already know Viking[1] but I noticed this project is
> not listed in your web pages. Related to what Maps can do, Viking has
> the ability to display a wide variety of maps via a quite simple
> extensible schema. I recently refactored the code in order to
> generalize the routing framework in order to support different routing
> engine (currently Google and OSRM, but many other are possible, even
> if most of the freely available services require a registering key).

Nice! Always nice to have a look at similar projects. Will try Viking
out at some poing for sure. 

> [1] http://viking.sf.net/
>
>
> I hope a long life to Maps and expect to bring a help as soon as
> possible.

This would be really nice. I hope to soon find time to fill in some more
bugs in bugzilla for features we want. Join us on IRC (#gnome-maps on
irc.gnome.org) if you want to have a chat on Maps.

Regards,
Mattias