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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 22 October 2013 16:50:14 Martin Fasani wrote:
> All looks quite good guys. Impressed!
> 
> Question:
> I would love to have an offline map when I get lost in Berlin:
> http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/western_europe/germany/berlin#download
> s_breadcrumbs
> 
> *Possible to use any application to open an OSM Open streets map ?*
> 
> I use Quantum GIS in Desktop but that is way to heavy to use on a Phone.
> 
> I don't know if this days where almost everyone has a phone contract would
> not mind to have an offline map. So this will be very down on the requests,
> but I would love if someone contributes with some Link / Idea to make this
> work on Touch.

Hi,

there are efforts to port Marble [1] over. This will still take a bit tho as 
Marble's plugin system is still based on QGraphicsItem's which don't work with 
QtQuick 2.0 any more.

Cheers,
Michael

[1] http://marble.kde.org/