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[Yohan Boniface <yohanboniface@xxxxxxx>]

Hi touch'phoners,

Here is a quick email to anounce that I've started working on a Ubuntu 
Touch map app based on OpenStreetMap, called OSMTouch.
This is a viewer only (i.e. not an editor), and for now it's very 
simple. You can:
- browse the map
- center the map on your location (acute when GPS is on and fixed, 
otherwise using GeoIP as fallback, given that AGPS is not supported yet 
by UT)
- search for locations
- view points of interest nearby (restaurants, subway stations, organic 
shops...)

The code is here: https://launchpad.net/osmtouch
The click package should be visible through the Dash.

It is in very early development, but it seems to me that it's usable 
enough to be shared, hopefully to get feedback, bug reports, and maybe 
pull requests :)

One issue I may mention here (that you will see very quickly ;) ) is 
that using the QTLocation it seems that I'm unable to take control of 
the background of the map, *below* the tiles. So when a tile is not 
loaded, there is no background at all at the moment (so you see for 
example the app you've opened before...).

This version is very simple, and basically only rely on QTLocation 
default API. I hope to get some time in the next week to extend it, and 
work on the following main features:
- map background switcher (to choose from different OSM renderings)
- mouse/keyboard support
- notes support (to notify when map has an error or is missing info)
- offline support (long one...)
- ...

Thanks in advance for your feedbacks!

Yohan