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Switch "near me" from Google Maps Android API to HTML-based OpenStreetMap backend
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Broken out from bug 32136.

The current "near me" map implementation uses a native Google Maps view. This has three major problems:

  • have to fiddle with code signing keys to get the map to work
  • doesn't work at all on Android devices without the Google proprietary APIs (such as Kindle Fire tablet)
  • will have to be recoded when porting the app to other operating systems

Replacing this with an OpenStreetMap-based, HTML-based view would let us port it more easily, have no limitations, and generally make us feel warm and fuzzy.

Version: 1.0.0 (Android)
Severity: normal

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Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 12:08 AM
• bzimport added a project: Wikipedia-App-Generic.
• bzimport set Reference to bz33208.
• brion created this task.Dec 17 2011, 12:00 AM
• brion added a comment.Jan 18 2012, 9:44 PM

This is done for web & iOS; needs doing for Android too (test me!)

• bzimport added a comment.Jan 24 2012, 12:26 AM

philinje wrote:

Some question around hosting a tile server, possibly this is for the v2 timeframe.

• brion added a comment.Jan 27 2012, 10:14 PM

This has been done on Android though the Java code remains sitting around unused.

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