Bug 481858

Summary:	Feature Request: Ability to use a custom map tile server
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	John <johnmcd>
Component:	Geolocation-Workflow	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	metzpinguin
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	8.2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description John 2024-02-26 13:30:12 UTC

I'm new to digiKam but I'm quickly learning to love it's features and capabilities. One feature I'd like to see added is the ability to specify a custom map tile server in addition to the built-in ones. I do a lot of field photo work offline when I'm traveling and I'd like to have the ability to geotag photos when I'm not connected to the Internet. I currently use mapsforgesrv running on my laptop with locally installed maps for several other applications, and having the ability to use that with digiKam would be great.

Thanks

John
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Comment 1 John 2024-03-18 11:07:08 UTC

Just to expand this, I was told about using Marble for offline maps. However, while Marble is a great map package, it's still a work in progress, very resource intensive for any reasonable number of offline maps, and it can be pretty complex to set up.

I was wondering if it would be possible to add support for something like mapsforgesrv (https://github.com/telemaxx/mapsforgesrv ) as an offline maps source. It's very easy to set up and run - just download the jar file and whatever .map files you want from mapsforge
(https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/download.mapsforge.org/maps/v5
/) and run it with 'java -jar mapsforgesrv-fatjar.jar -p 8080 -m "massachusetts.map, new-hampshire.map"'. In order to access the mapsforgesrv tile 'server' from digiKam you just need to point the app to 'http://localhost:8080/{z}/{x}/{y}.png'.