1. Emerillon Plugins

1.1. Available plugins

Plugins part of the Emerillon repository:

• Placemarks

  • Remembers places and zoom levels.

  • Language: C

• Search

  • Search the map using geonames.org web services.

  • Language: C

• Copy Link

  • Copy a link to the current viewed position to osm.org and other online maps

  • Language: C

• Map Position

  • Displays the position at the center of the map in the status bar

  • Language: C

Plugins part of the Emerillon-plugins repository:

• Montreal Public Bike System

  • Displays the status of the Bixi network in Montréal

  • TODO: Should be made more general and cover all similar services
  • Language: C

• Vala example plugin

  • An example "hello world" plugin written in Vala

  • Language: Vala

1.2. Plugins being worked on

• Track viewer (Tomaž Vajngerl)

  • Displays gpx traces on the map

  • Language: Vala

  • Repository: repository

  • Status: in progress, minimum functionality

• Geo information plugin (Tomaž Vajngerl)

  • Displays weather stations (from geonames), wikipedia entries (from geonames) and pictures (from panoramio) on the map

  • Language: Vala

  • Repository: repository

  • Status: ~80%

• Places plugin (Tomaž Vajngerl)

  • KML format parser with places view like in Google Earth. It can show "My maps" from Google Maps and other online KML resources

  • Language: Vala

  • Repository: repository

  • Status: ~50%

• Route plugin (Tomaž Vajngerl)

  • Plot route from one point to the other point (using web services)

  • Language: Vala

  • Repository: repository

  • Status: not yet started

• Image export (Simon Wenner)

  • Export the map as a PNG image or attach it to an email

  • Language: Vala

  • Repository: Bug #616796

  • Status: 100%

1.3. Ideas

• GeoRSS & KML feeds

• Route navigation (downloaded from a web service for now)
• GPS integration
• Telepathy integration (both to share the app and to display your friends location)
• Display the position under the mouse cursor
• Display personal markers
• Print a map
• Local time of current location
• Appointments from Evolution (translate location field to coordinates, display appointment summary and description)

• Legend: add a sidebar with a legend to the current displayed map (possibly using Mallard doc tools and WebKit)

• Display all available free Wifi hotspots as made available by Wifidog sites: (for example: https://auth.ilesansfil.org/hotspot_status.php?format=XML ) full list of hotspots: http://dev.wifidog.org/wiki/Community

• Status.net feed visualizer
  • input: data from your status.net feed
  • output: map with color mapped (heat map like age of feed item) feed items
• Display current position (position of map center) to facilitate and improve accuracy of placemarks addition

1.4. Plugin basic info

• Location: They can be stored in $HOME/.local/share/emerillon/plugins/ or /usr/lib/emerillon/plugins