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  2. QTBUG-23412

QtLocation & QtPositioning backlog

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    • Location & Positioning Backlog

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      General backlog for possible tasks/features in QtLocation – things not necessarily ever committed to but under consideration.

      Please add new suggestions via new user stories to Jira and link them against this epic as already done below. Hopefully over time this epic can be transformed into somewhat of a roadmap for QtLcation development. The aim is to have an official release of QtLocation as part of Qt 5.2.

      Current considerations which need further discussions and separate Jira details (no particular order of priority yet):

      • Qt 5.3
        • Update documentation to bring in line with other Qt5 libs (QTBUG-24877)
        • Android port for QtPositioning (QTBUG-34102)
        • iOS port for QtPositoning (position engine done, satellite information not available)
        • QtLocation QML API frozen from Qt 5.3 onwards
      • Qt 5.4
        • Re-enable automated CI runs and fix related auto test in during the process (QTBUG-31797)
        • Removal of Qt3D dependency from QtLocation (done)
        • Example polishing (QTBUG-24845)
        • New platform ports for QtPositioning
      • Qt 5.5
        • Technology Preview for Qt Location
        • Place backend for OSM plug-in (done)
      • Qt 5.6
        • First committed API release & plenty of bug fixes
      • Qt 5.7
        • Mostly just bug fixes
      • Qt 5.8
      • Qt 5.9
        • Tile layers (QTBUG-49475)
        • External map renderer (QTBUG-53851)
        • External map item rendering (QTBUG-53852)
        • Improved Tile caching API to support customizations (QTBUG-46970)
        • Map Tilt/Rotation support (QTBUG-56473, QTBUG-40774)
        • Add overzoom support (aka tile blending) to the stock renderer (QTBUG-23659)
        • Cache mercator projection of qgeocoordinates
        • Vector-based map rendering (via 3rdparty mapbox-gl-native library)
        • Add fitViewportToVisibleMapItems to only consider visible items when fitting the viewport (QTBUG-57912)
        • Add MapItemGroup, to combine multiple map items in a separate qml file (QTBUG-55211)
        • Add MapParameter, to expose and control plugin-specific functionalities at runtime
      • Qt 5.10
        • Add QGeoPolygon, and use it also in Map.visibleRegion, to return the correct polygon also on rotated/tilted maps
          • Use clipper to implement ::contains()
        • Change the current tile-based providers to always support the full range of zoom levels by enabling overzoom
      • Mid to long term
        • Improve performance of map item rendering (QTBUG-25728)
          • Possibly offload the rest to glsl on those platforms supporting double precision fp
            • With this, also skip the clipping, as opengl knows how to deal with stuff behind the camera
        • Add better 3D map items support
        • Add 3D content rendering support
          • Support first fragment translucency (possibly in 2 passes)
          • Including MouseArea support
        • Perform data provisioning in a separate thread
          • Including mipmap generation
          • Possibly also texture uploading
        • Add support to burn map items into tiles
        • Support additional cylindrical projections
        • Support non-cylindrical projections
        • Support globe rendering
        • Support terrain rendering
        • Content provider reviews
          • Evaluate adding a geoservice provider plugin, based on OSM data, for offline places, geocoding and routing, using the one or the other 3rd party library.
          • Evaluate using a 3rd party library to allow usage of offline vector data (not just raster) and rasterize it to tile on demand (e.g., libosmscout, or others)
          • There are Nokia and OSM Maps backends which have to be reviewed from a quality and applicability perspective. Does a Nokia plug-in make sense going forward (whats the maintainer situation, Nokia has monetary interest in its REST API users)
          • The JsonDB place plug-in provides offline place facilities and as such is not actually providing new information. While JsonDB is unlikely to be a valid storage it could be possible to port it to some other form of storage such as SQL.
          • The Nokia Places backend does provides online retrieval and search of place information but has the same issues as the above Nokia Maps backend.
          • The OSM/Mapnik plug-in could potentially utilize offline OSM data. The data is rather large on storage but when split into individual location (e.g. split by country) it is feasible to store map data on the local device (more details http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data) (QTBUG-45284)
        • New platform ports for QtPositioning
      • Qt6 (breaking changes)
        • MapType rework
        • Plugin should be split, to separate the discovery functionalities from an API for the actual attached instance
        • All public c++ classes should have at least a virtual destructor

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          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-72239 Qt Location changes in Qt6

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Open

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. QTBUG-20865 Map types and modes of map plugin

          • P1: Critical - Urgent and Important, will STOP the release if matched with set FixVersion field. This includes regressions from the last version that are not edge cases; Data loss; Build issues; All but the most unlikely crashes/lockups/hanging; Serious usability issues and embarrassing bugs & Bugs critical to a deliverable. This is the highest possible priority for requirements.
          • Open

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. QTBUG-19937 Cannot pass address into RouteQuery element

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Open

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. QTBUG-34102 Android port for QtPositioning

          • P1: Critical - Urgent and Important, will STOP the release if matched with set FixVersion field. This includes regressions from the last version that are not edge cases; Data loss; Build issues; All but the most unlikely crashes/lockups/hanging; Serious usability issues and embarrassing bugs & Bugs critical to a deliverable. This is the highest possible priority for requirements.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. QTBUG-31797 tst_declarative_ui fails in CI

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. QTBUG-31798 tst_declarative_core fails in CI

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. QTBUG-23659 Smooth transition between zoom levels and panning by approximating previously cached textures at other levels

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. QTBUG-24414 Profile the memory consumption of the Places API and identify possible optimisations.

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Open

          Task - A task that needs to be done. QTBUG-24415 Profile the memory consumption of the Maps/Navigation API and identify possible optimisations.

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Open

          Task - A task that needs to be done. QTBUG-24614 Error dialogs for places qml example (possible error handling API tweaking)

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Open

          Task - A task that needs to be done. QTBUG-37778 Implement Qt Geopositioning for WinRT

          • P1: Critical - Urgent and Important, will STOP the release if matched with set FixVersion field. This includes regressions from the last version that are not edge cases; Data loss; Build issues; All but the most unlikely crashes/lockups/hanging; Serious usability issues and embarrassing bugs & Bugs critical to a deliverable. This is the highest possible priority for requirements.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. QTBUG-31741 Remove all JsonDB dependencies from QtLocation

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. QTBUG-48082 Positioning backend for Windows

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Closed

          Suggestion - Public suggestions QTBUG-25728 Map item geometry should be approximated during zoom

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Reported

          Suggestion - Public suggestions QTBUG-24888 No QML API to query for the set of supported routing features

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-24998 Add ability to search multiple categories (in Places app)

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-25080 Performance system test application

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Open

          Suggestion - Public suggestions QTBUG-19975 QLocale set set measurement system

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-20545 QML: MapRoute element doesn't have property for node's images

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-23415 Map datelines and wrapping

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-23420 Plugin properties on Map etc should be writeable more than once

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-24069 Make QPlaceContent extendable by third parties

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-24845 Example polishing

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-25971 Batch saving of places

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-26778 Import Places functionality

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-23492 Unit tests for Places QML elements

          • P4: Low - Would be nice to fix, but it's not very important.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-23535 Category Model to return model index for a given category (id)

          • P4: Low - Would be nice to fix, but it's not very important.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-23859 Optimize coordinateToScreenPosition and similar transforms

          • P4: Low - Would be nice to fix, but it's not very important.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-25779 Create sequencer application to replay user input into maps

          • P4: Low - Would be nice to fix, but it's not very important.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-26779 Make QPlaceAttribute Extendable

          • P4: Low - Would be nice to fix, but it's not very important.
          • Open

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-23171 The map item coordinates should be able to be animated.

          • Not Evaluated - Not yet evaluated/prioritized
          • Closed

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-24874 Places search results can include another search query (explore mode)

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Closed

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-24877 Documentation polishing

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Closed

          Suggestion - Public suggestions QTBUG-32937 Consider adding tile server url(s) as parameter for OSM mapping plugin

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Closed

          Suggestion - Public suggestions QTBUG-45284 OSM offline plugin

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
          • Closed

          Suggestion - Public suggestions QTBUG-23744 The QML Position type should expose the equivalent QGeoPositionInfo in the C++ API

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Closed

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-23746 Port all examples to use Qt Quick Controls

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Closed

          Suggestion - Public suggestions QTBUG-27015 Geoservices plugins should be responsible for rendering the map and map objects

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Closed

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-31590 Nokia backend related backlog

          • Not Evaluated - Not yet evaluated/prioritized
          • Withdrawn

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-26771 Complete JsonDb Plugin

          • P4: Low - Would be nice to fix, but it's not very important.
          • Withdrawn

          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-26776 Support User Authentication

          • P4: Low - Would be nice to fix, but it's not very important.
          • Withdrawn
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