New (Northern hemisphere) summer blog post on news in Maps
https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/06/midsommer-maps.html
Covering some new features, a bug fix by @flyingpimonster, and a new feature where I did some live user testing by @dmark
New (Northern hemisphere) summer blog post on news in Maps
https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/06/midsommer-maps.html
Covering some new features, a bug fix by @flyingpimonster, and a new feature where I did some live user testing by @dmark
Making more things directly “clickable” in Maps, like streets…
Another idea as a follow-up on this to add functionallity to the highway shield library to be able to get a paintable object given a place' network tags. So that we could show that instead of the generic “car” icon for roads when available.
Experimenting with showing custom icons for stations. Inspired a bit from our highway shield rendered (derived from OpenStreetMap Americana)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/tree/wip/mlundblad/station-icons
It's making use of the "network:wikidata" OSM tag.
Currently rendering these icons in map view itself is not tested (this needs an extra addition to our planetiler generator for the vector tiles to be run in the next import).
There has been some controversy around naming of certain bodies of water in other map apps lately.
So I thought about a possible solution to take a more neutral approach to this in Maps:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/commits/wip/mlundblad/golf-of-something
Blog post on Maps and the upcoming GNOME 48 release
Experimenting with showing walking leg durations (in minutes) for public transit itiniraries in the overview list in Maps…
Does this makes sense, or would be confusing (maybe mixing it up with the line number/name badges shown for transit legs?).
It's time for the traditional yearly wrap-up blog post!
https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2024/12/christmas-winter-end-of-year-holidays.html
Our talk "GNOME Maps and Transitous Based on Global Routing with MOTIS" for FOSDEM 2025, to be held by me, Felix Gündling, and Jonah Brüchert has been accepted!
Just tagged and uploaded the 47.2 dot release of GNOME Maps.
This release contains a bugfix, for opening geo: URIs without a zoom level parameter, where it should now use the last used zoom level instead of reverting back to 0 (this regressed after adding support for the zoom level parameter in the URI). And there's also a couple of translation updates.
https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-maps/47/
It's also available in the stable Flatpak on Flathub
New blog post about the upcoming #GNOME Maps 47.0
Ein neues Release von @gnome ist raus. Was an #Gnome46 neu ist, stelle in diesem Video für @heiseonline / @ct_Magazin vor. Was haltet ihr von Gnome 46?