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21. September 2012
Lantea Maps - Contributions Welcome!
I just split my Lantea Maps web app out of my main git repo and into its own small one, one main reason being that I can place it on GitHub as well. This is not meaning that I suddenly love the GitHub site, but having the repo there lowers the entry barrier for potential contributors and I'd be very happy to have people help me with this app.
Lantea Maps is a prototype web app to display maps and record (GPS) tracks, and I found it works pretty well with Firefox OS, actually. It's one of the apps I keep installing on my test device for that system, of course from its Mozilla Marketplace listing.
The app is based on a canvas that displays a map (from OpenStreetMap, multiple styles can be selected) and on which the recorded GPS tracks are displayed. The start of the app is there and working, but it could need quite some improvement - like making zoom switches and probably map panning smoother by using some canvas magic, supporting pinch gestures, caching tiles not just during a session but also across sessions (using IndexedDB), and more.
As mentioned on the original Lantea idea wiki page, there's a quite nice app for the Nokia N900 called Mappero that is a good source for feature and UI ideas, for me it's one the the best apps in that space and I'd love to have something similar to it as a web app - which is basically why I started Lantea at all.
That said, I'm open for all kinds of ideas for it - and even more, to patches and pull requests!
Von KaiRo, um 01:17 | Tags: B2G, Lantea, Mozilla, OSM, Web Apps | 3 Kommentare | TrackBack: 0
Weekly Status Report, W37/2012
Here's a short summary of Mozilla-related work I've done in week 37/2012 (September 10 - 16, 2012):
That week was a bit short as I only came back late from Warsaw on Monday, then needed to catch up with work and get rested again, and on Thursday I took most of the day off (except for some meetings) because it was my birthday. The report on the week comes quite late, though as this week was more intense again - but more about that in the next report.
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
I continued testing Firefox OS on my otoro and tried poking people so we get crash reporting working.
Checked how crash reporting works after breakpad was turned on in device images - and found that they are generated but not sent as online detection had been backed out again.
Had some conversations on further build-side steps to make B2G vcrash reporting useful.
Tested the new "mobeta" release of Socorro on stage, watched it being deployed on production, and tested there again.
Filed a bug on missing data after that deployment, and another one on incorrect daily numbers which I missed in stage testing and only discovered in production testing.
Discussed adding Metro Firefox to Socorro.
Commented on about:crashes for Firefox OS.
As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well. - Various Discussions/Topics:
MozCamp Warsaw, etc.
That week was a bit short as I only came back late from Warsaw on Monday, then needed to catch up with work and get rested again, and on Thursday I took most of the day off (except for some meetings) because it was my birthday. The report on the week comes quite late, though as this week was more intense again - but more about that in the next report.
Von KaiRo, um 00:30 | Tags: L10n, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Status | keine Kommentare | TrackBack: 0
