Map Widget Release
I made a new April resolution to start blogging reguarly again. The first step of that long journey begins now.
OpenStreetMap GPS Mapping Widget - 0.3
I just released v0.3 of osm-gps-map, the easy to use Gtk+ mapping widget. Highlights for this release include;
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A new major contributor, Alberto Mardegan, who worked on many of the new features of this release. Thanks a lot Alberto!
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Draw map tracks with Cairo by default.
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Interpolate between zoom levels while waiting for a tile to download.
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Stop using GET_PRIVATE, and cache priv* for performance.
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Keep an extra border of images offscreen for smoother scrolling at the edges of the map.
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Keep the last N tiles in memory to improve render performance (previously they were loaded from disk)
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Add some new api; osm_gps_set_center, osm_gps_map_scroll.
Conduit Hacking
Hacking on Conduit continues, with much happyness for two reasons;
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GNOME has moved to git! Wahoo! I owe the sysadmin team many beers, except for Jc2k who I know could not handle them anyway.
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Conduit got a SOC project, congratulations Alexandre!
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Work is ongoing to merge in the new configuration and settings serialization code.
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More on this later, I promise...