OpenStreetMap Plugin for Map QML type broken

[jn]

Since MapQuest shut down its service, the osm plugin for the Map QML type is broken: https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/apps/qml/sdk-15.04.5/QtLocation.location-plugin-osm/

To reproduce it, make sure that you do not request tiles that are already in cache!

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

With Qt 5.5 there's a working MapBox plugin which could be used as a replacement for the MapQuest plugin. This could probably be backported quite easily.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

If Qt 5.5 has a working plugin, I assume Qt 5.6 in yakkety and xenial phone overlay is fine, so adding only OTA task.

There's a ticket now for this https://requests.ci-train.ubuntu.com/#/ticket/1900 , remains to be seen how hard the backporting is. It seems it will need even more location core changes backporting than what was done a few months ago when newer OSM/MapQuest plugin was ported. Hopefully it will be just a couple of commits though.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

The vivid backport of the plugin seems problematic at this point, it uses several new core location features from 5.6. Regarding "rtm" as in "next stable platform", this is already fixed in xenial-overlay.