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 *** NOTE: If you are reporting a crash, please try to attach a backtrace with debug symbols. See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. 2. 3. OBSERVED RESULT EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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'.