fre 2018-01-05 klockan 15:37 +0000 skrev Neil McGovern: > In the short term, we're having our access extended on a month-by- > month > basis while we work out a more permanent solution. Big thanks to > MapBox > for this offer. We're working with MapBox to see what the cost of the > pay-as-you-go plan would be, and are trying to see how that could be > affordable for the Foundation. > > > Long term: if we can continue with MapBox or another service > > provider, > > are other GNOME apps also allowed to use this service (and the JSON > > service file of Maps)? I'm asking this as the GNOME Contacts > > maintainer, as the app sorely needs to look into updating its code > > displaying maps. I'm at a point where I'm even considering > > (temporarily) ripping that feature out as it's leading to crashes > > for > > some people. > > > > I'm not sure about the specifics for this, but AIUI, we have a GNOME > redirector in place so in theory, we should have something more > stable > even if we do switch providers. I'm not entirely sure who runs that - > any ideas? >
Maps downloads the service file [1] (hosted on GNOME infrastructure), it's a simple JSON file containing service definitions with URLs for the different tile sources. We used to have a proxy at one point (but that has since been de-commisioned, and the service definition points directly to the tile providers. [1] https://gis.gnome.org/services/v1/service.json //Marcus > Neil _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
