There has been some controversy around naming of certain bodies of water in other map apps lately.
So I thought about a possible solution to take a more neutral approach to this in Maps:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/commits/wip/mlundblad/golf-of-something
Rolled a couple of patch releases today for the stable branches…
Maps 48.1 and 47.6
Fixes an issue where timestamps where calculated with incorrect offset for the itinerary results for public transit routing with Transitous. This was spotted by Michael Catanzaro, thanks to the US being already on DST 
Just rolled the stable releases for GNOME 48
GNOME Maps 48: https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-maps/48/
libshumate 1.4.0: https://download.gnome.org/sources/libshumate/1.4/
And also 47.5 for Maps with a cherry-pick for the update to use Transitous for public transit routing in Finland (due to Digitransit sunsetting the old OpenTripPlanner 1.x API in April).
And now rest and fika for the rest of the day
Blog post on Maps and the upcoming GNOME 48 release
Just released the RCs of Maps and libshumate before the GNOME 48 release.
https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-maps/48/
https://download.gnome.org/sources/libshumate/1.4/
And also, the reason the Maps tarball is much smaller now is because the appdata screenshots are now hosted on static.gnome.org.
The video from mine, Felix Gündling's, and @Jbb talk about Transitous, MOTIS, and GNOME Maps at FOSDEM 2025 is now available at:
And rolled the early February releases now before going to Brussels tomorrow evening
Beta releases for upcoming GNOME 48:
• gnome-maps 48.beta (http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-maps/48/)
• libshumate 1.4.beta (http://download.gnome.org/sources/libshumate/1.4/)
Stable releases in the GNOME 47 cycle
• gnome-maps 47.4 (http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-maps/47/)
• libshumate 1.3.2 (http://download.gnome.org/sources/libshumate/1.3/)
After some trial-and-error I finally managed to wrap my around how to make a radial gradient effect using GSK for new redesigned current location widget (showing a "heading torch")
New releases of Maps and libshumate today:
Latest alpha release of Maps (including new refinements for GNOME 48) 48.alpha2, and the stable release 47.3.
New releases of libshumate 1.4.alpha, and stable bug fix release 1.3.1.
These releases where the first for Maps and libshumate making use of the new GitLab CI-based tarball release artifact templates
Happy new year 2025!
Got to write the first copyright header year of 2025 when started breaking out some map marker code to prepare for refactoring the "current location marker" in Maps to be drawn using GTK snapshot stuff, and use the new accent colors. 
#gnomemaps #2025newyear #2025 #gnomebuilder #gnome #mapstodon
Experimenting with showing walking leg durations (in minutes) for public transit itiniraries in the overview list in Maps…
Does this makes sense, or would be confusing (maybe mixing it up with the line number/name badges shown for transit legs?).
It's time for the traditional yearly wrap-up blog post!
https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2024/12/christmas-winter-end-of-year-holidays.html
Our talk "GNOME Maps and Transitous Based on Global Routing with MOTIS" for FOSDEM 2025, to be held by me, Felix Gündling, and Jonah Brüchert has been accepted!
PSA: the tileserver serving OMT vector tiles for GNOME Maps (and the libshumate demo app) should now be up again after the service migrations/outage (related to issues affecting GNOME GitLab).
(this affected newer releases using client-side rendering, older ones relying on OSM raster tiles where unaffected).
Also, big thanks to the Infrastructure team for dealing with it quickly!
Playing with some CSS animations for the favorite button in Maps…
Just tagged and uploaded the 47.2 dot release of GNOME Maps.
This release contains a bugfix, for opening geo: URIs without a zoom level parameter, where it should now use the last used zoom level instead of reverting back to 0 (this regressed after adding support for the zoom level parameter in the URI). And there's also a couple of translation updates.
https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-maps/47/
It's also available in the stable Flatpak on Flathub
About time to update the shield parsing/rendering to deal with the updated defintions with short-hand "banner maps" from OpenStreetMap Americana.
So, let's dive down into C (pun kinda intended) again… 
Implementing the updated MOTIS v2 API in #GNOME Maps
Still incomplete, as can be seen by the JS stacktraces due to loads of missing stuff…
I Have now for the first time ever submitted a proposal for a talk at FOSDEM!
Let's see how this goes
