Volker Krause

Last weekend I joined an in-person workshop at HTW Berlin for discussing topics around mapping indoor spaces in OpenStreetMap. Mapping indoor spaces is a somewhat niche topic in the OSM community still, but something that is quite relevant for projects I’m involved in: Transitous, for routing transfers through train stations. Itinerary, for displaying detailed maps of train stations or airports. Kongress, for venue maps for conferences as described here.

In my last post on Android platform integration I had suggested increasing the focus on Linux on mobile phones, due to Google’s ongoing attempts to close down Android for us. I have to follow that myself then of course, starting with looking at the situation around location/positioning.

Quite a few things have happened around the Android platform support for KDE applications in recent months, so high time for another update on that. As already mentioned previously, we have updated the Qt version to 6.11. That has the unfortunate consequence of losing support for Android 8 and older. Due to that we also removed the ARM32 builds, as devices running Android 9 or higher are very likely capable of using ARM64 builds anyway, cutting down the CI cost by a third.