Hi Jon,

yes, this is a useful feature, which we would very much like to include! However, in the next version of digikam, we have switched from plain Marble to libkmap, which allows you to display your photos either on Marble or Google Maps. For displaying GPX files on Marble, it would probably still be as straightforward as you said, but for Google Maps we have yet to figure out a simple way to do it, as we would of course like to keep the interface of both map views consistent.

Michael

Google Maps only provides GPX upload and display to a server with a
registered API key, so a client cannot get a track overlay directly. No
obvious simple and robust way to get it via Google, then.
And you do not want to have a facility that only works with one of the
map options. Fair enough. Disappointing, but it is a good point.
One is left to wonder why Google serves client GPX facilities in Google
Earth, but not in Google Maps.

I will applaud it if and when you do find a workable solution.

Rgds, Jon

On 2010-09-16 20:59, Michael G. Hansen wrote:
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> --- Comment #1 from Michael G. Hansen <mike mghansen de>  2010-09-16 20:59:38 ---
> Hi Jon,
>
> yes, this is a useful feature, which we would very much like to include!
> However, in the next version of digikam, we have switched from plain Marble to
> libkmap, which allows you to display your photos either on Marble or Google
> Maps. For displaying GPX files on Marble, it would probably still be as
> straightforward as you said, but for Google Maps we have yet to figure out a
> simple way to do it, as we would of course like to keep the interface of both
> map views consistent.
>
> Michael
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>

> And you do not want to have a facility that only works with one of the
> map options. Fair enough. Disappointing, but it is a good point.

Well, I think this is really an important feature
(which could be extended to displaying .kml and .kmz files as well).
And if it is not possible to achieve this for non-free maps/services,
it seems fine for me to at least do it for the case
of maps which can be (legally) supported by marble.
So I would be very much in favour of such a feature
even if it would not work for google maps.

I have seen a few JavaScript based demos that show GPX overlays on Google Maps and IMHO without uploading the GPX to a Google Server, so we will try to do something like that later. If it turns out that it will not work with Google Maps, we will no doubt do a Marble-only implementation anyway.

For now, we still have to fix some issues with proper basic integration of libkmap into kipi-plugins and digikam, so we won't start the GPX overlay feature until the other issues have been completed.

Michael

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Git commit ccd47e45b1a791772be651fb1f396ea363b35de3 by Maik Qualmann.
Committed on 23/03/2022 at 14:36.
Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'.

show tracks on the map view when found in Album
FIXED-IN: 8.0.0

M  +2    -1    NEWS
M  +48   -2    core/app/views/stack/mapwidgetview.cpp
M  +1    -0    core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/tracks/trackmanager.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/ccd47e45b1a791772be651fb1f396ea363b35de3

This feature is awesome!
Thanks for implementing it, it's great :-)