Porting to Qt5 from Qt4 QGraphicsGeoMap

kiye

I found a simply code in order to display the Nokia map with Qt4 and QtMobility.
Since the Nokia Maps was sold, white strips were inserted into map. I wanted to realize the porting to Qt5 to test the new Here plugin. I could'nt do it because QGraphicsGeoMap is not available with Qt5.5.2

How to replace QGraphicsGeoMap , and display simply the Nokia/Here map?

Thanks a lot for your help

//my code here
#include <QApplication>
#include <QMessageBox>
#include <QGraphicsScene>
#include <QGraphicsView>
#include <QGeoCoordinate>
#include <QGeoMappingManager>
#include <QGeoServiceProvider>

using namespace QtMobility;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);
    QStringList services = QGeoServiceProvider::availableServiceProviders();

    if (services.isEmpty()) {
        QMessageBox::critical(0,
            app.translate("graphicsmap", "Graphics Map"),
            app.translate("graphicsmap",
                          "Failed to find any map services. Please ensure that "
                          "the location services plugins for Qt Mobility have "
                          "been built and, if necessary, set the QT_PLUGIN_PATH "
                          "environment variable to the location of the Qt Mobility "
                          "plugins directory."));
        return 1;
    }

    QGeoServiceProvider service("nokia");
    if (service.error() != service.NoError) {
        QMessageBox::critical(0,
            app.translate("graphicsmap", "Graphics Map"),
            app.translate("graphicsmap",
                          "The service failed with the following error:\n"
                          "%1").arg(service.errorString()));
        return 1;
    }

    QGeoMappingManager *manager = service.mappingManager();
    
    QGraphicsScene scene;
    QGraphicsView view;
    view.setScene(&scene);
    
    QGraphicsGeoMap *geoMap = new QGraphicsGeoMap(manager);
    scene.addItem(geoMap);
    
    geoMap->resize(300, 300);
    geoMap->setCenter(QGeoCoordinate(52.75, -2.75));
    geoMap->setMapType(QGraphicsGeoMap::TerrainMap);
    geoMap->setZoomLevel(10);
    
    view.show();
    return app.exec();
}```

raven-worx

@kiye
QtLocation in Qt5 doesn't rely anymore on the QgraphicsView/QGraphicsScene framework.
So now there is QGeoMap class instead. But some classes are still private and not part of the public API yet - like this one. I think they will be along with Qt 5.7.

But i don't understand why you want to bring up all the effort, when the Nokia (now called HERE) maps are still available as plugin in the QtLocation module?

kiye

@raven-worx

@raven-worx said:

But i don't understand why you want to bring up all the effort, when the Nokia (now called HERE) maps are still available as plugin in the QtLocation module?

That's just the reason why i want to test it. My problem is displaying the map on the scene (scene.addItem(???); )
I 'm not be able to do that simply with QGeoMap

raven-worx

@kiye
yes because it isn't based on the graphics view framework. Instead there are is a QML Map element. So use a QQuickView to load a simple QML just displaying a Map.
Now the workflow happens mainly behind the scenes in the QtLocation framework. You just need to implement the given API.
See the github link to the official HERE plugin as a reference.

kiye

@raven-worx
I've tested the example 'Map Viewer (QML)'. The osm plugin works well, not the nokia one :(
However, I execute the program with parameters "--plugin.here.app_id myappid --plugin.here.token myappcode".
It seems there is bugs in nokia(here) plugin.
Logs during execution:
italicised textError message:Qt Location requires app_id and token parameters.
Please register at https://developer.here.com/ to get your personal application credentials.
The issue seems to be in the following function:

void checkUsageTerms(const QVariantMap &parameters, QGeoServiceProvider::Error *error, QString *errorString)
    {
        QString appId, token;

        appId = parameters.value(QStringLiteral("here.app_id")).toString();
        token = parameters.value(QStringLiteral("here.token")).toString();

        if (isValidParameter(appId) && isValidParameter(token))
            return;

        if (parameters.contains(QStringLiteral("app_id")) || parameters.contains(QStringLiteral("token")))
            qWarning() << QStringLiteral("Please prefix 'app_id' and 'token' with prefix 'here' (e.g.: 'here.app_id')");

        *error = QGeoServiceProvider::MissingRequiredParameterError;
        *errorString = QCoreApplication::translate(NOKIA_PLUGIN_CONTEXT_NAME, MISSED_CREDENTIALS);
    }

To give an example that does't work is not serious from Qt Team.

raven-worx

@kiye said:

I've tested the example 'Map Viewer (QML)'. The osm plugin works well, not the nokia one :(
However, I execute the program with parameters "--plugin.here.app_id myappid --plugin.here.token myappcode".
It seems there is bugs in nokia(here) plugin.

i am not sure, but is passing the parameters via command line arguments even possible?
Normally you should pass them to the plugin directly. QML / C++

kiye

@raven-worx
Yes I know, but this example is like that. The plugin is built dynamically with the parameters.
I put a breakpoint in checkUsageTerms function. I can see my parameters with good values but appId and token are not correct.
"appId = parameters.value(QStringLiteral("here.app_id")).toString();"
"token = parameters.value(QStringLiteral("here.token")).toString();"

parameters is good:
parameters[o] : key= "here.app_id" value="myappid"
parameters[1] : key="here.token value="myappcode"

but
appId="" (value = 0xC0A2AA6B in memory)
token="" (value = 0xC0A2AA6B in memory)

I don't understand why parameters.value("key").toString() failed.