GNOME Maps Should Now Work Again, Switches From Mapquest To Mapbox

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Maps Should Now Work Again, Switches From Mapquest To Mapbox

The GNOME Maps program has seen update in the GNOME 3.14/3.16/3.18/3.20/3.21 series with new releases to change its tiling provider so that the mapping program will work once again...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Maps-On-Mapbox

[GraysonPeddie]

Those who are running Ubuntu and recently installed GNOME Maps (including me) may get the MapQuest error.

Perhaps someone from the GNOME3 Team PPA should add all the GNOME applications, including GNOME Maps. I don't want to install the staging version, as that would break the Unity Tweak Tool, causing switches and sliders to disappear. Using the PPA Purge to get rid of the staging repository fixed the issue.

In short: GNOME Maps is not in the GNOME3 (non-staging) PPA.

[woprandi]

I still have 3.20.1 on Fedora

[bug77]

And this is better than maps.google.com (or whatever provider) because?

[You-]

For Fedora, its in updates-testing.

For Ubuntu, its probably better to install via flatpak as then you wont be limited to the outdated ubuntu components and any updates wont break things that rely on the putdated compontents.

[Guest]

And this is better than maps.google.com (or whatever provider) because?

Google probably allows lower daily quota. It is cumulative for all libchamplain/gnome-maps users.

[bug77]

Google probably allows lower daily quota. It is cumulative for all libchamplain/gnome-maps users.

But why is the dedicated application better? What does it do?

[GraysonPeddie]

For Fedora, its in updates-testing.

For Ubuntu, its probably better to install via flatpak as then you wont be limited to the outdated ubuntu components and any updates wont break things that rely on the putdated compontents.

I got an error message when trying to run GNOME Maps:

[grayson@htpc ~]$ flatpak run org.gnome.Maps
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module"
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

(gnome-maps:2): Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'gnome-maps' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'GLXBadContext'.
  (Details: serial 189 error_code 169 request_code 154 (GLX) minor_code 6)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Ubuntu 16.04
NVIDIA GTX 960

[plonoma]

Why not use openstreetmap?

https://www.openstreetmap.org

And why not have multiprovider functionality?
And why no provider plug-ins/addons/scripts updated independently from the main map application?

[anda_skoa]

Why not use openstreetmap?

https://www.openstreetmap.org

Both the old and the new tile provider use OpenStreetMap data.

The application can't use OSM's tile servers directly because they don't have the necessary computing-power/bandwidth to deal with such applications.

And why not have multiprovider functionality?

That's actually a very good question, maybe the Web APIs of all these providers is highly different.

I mean there must have been a reason why the provider was hardcoded in the application, not a configuration value.

And why no provider plug-ins/addons/scripts updated independently from the main map application?

Probably because it is a very young application and hasn't reached the sophistication level yet that is needed for such infrastructure.
Or it is written in a language/framework that doesn't support this type of extension mechanism.

Cheers,
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