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[Alberto Mardegan <1450168@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The libqtgeoservices_osm.so plugin gets loaded in the same process as
the application using it, and stores all the map tiles into ~/.cache
/<click-package>/

This means that different apps will be unable to share the data, leading
to wasted filesystem space.

I suggest to modify the plugin so that:

1) Tiles are stored in a common place (and apparmor rules are relaxed to
allow read access to that): ~/.cache/libqtgeoservices_osm/, for example

2) Tile downloads are managed by a separate service, started on demand.

** Affects: qtlocation-opensource-src (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Map data should be shared between apps

Status in qtlocation-opensource-src package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The libqtgeoservices_osm.so plugin gets loaded in the same process as
  the application using it, and stores all the map tiles into ~/.cache
  /<click-package>/

  This means that different apps will be unable to share the data,
  leading to wasted filesystem space.

  I suggest to modify the plugin so that:

  1) Tiles are stored in a common place (and apparmor rules are relaxed
  to allow read access to that): ~/.cache/libqtgeoservices_osm/, for
  example

  2) Tile downloads are managed by a separate service, started on
  demand.

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