Nostr notes by Marcus Lundblad

New month, new releases… Just rolled the beta releases for Maps ...

2026-08-01T11:21:47Z

New month, new releases…

Just rolled the beta releases for Maps and libshumate for 51 beta:

Maps: 50.beta
libshumate 1.7.beta

and stable updates:

Maps 50.3 with a backport for allowing public transit routing from places further away from a routable OSM footpath (like inside a large building without indoor mapping), matching the behavior of the MOTIS web UI.

libshumate 1.6.3, 1.5.5 with a fix for a segfault when calling remove_all() with selected markers

#gnomemaps #libshumate #mapstodon

I dusted off an old idea to show duration for walking segments of ...

2026-07-09T08:51:54Z

I dusted off an old idea to show duration for walking segments of public transit itineraries that I played with a year or so back.

Now that the list is using flowboxes, which can wrap contents to multiple lines when needed I think it will probably look better:

#gnomemaps #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #transitous #routing #Gnome

Thanks to hard work by @npub13kl…rq5g Maps now supports ...

2026-05-28T20:32:54Z

Thanks to hard work by James Westman (npub13kl…rq5g) Maps now supports downloading map areas for offline use!

This has been a long-awaited feature and will finally be available in GNOME 51.

#gnomemaps #gnome #mapstodon #openstreetmap #offlinemaps

Another little “side project”: putting some more on Sweden ...

2026-05-25T21:00:43Z

Another little “side project”: putting some more on Sweden (“färgläggning”)…

Have spent some time lately to extend (and refactor) the Lua script that I wrote some time ago for post-processing the GTFS data from Trafiklab in Transitous. Especially in Kiruna, the likelyhood of the mapping from line name to color seems extra stable, and less likely to change… 😄

🚌🚋🇸🇪

#transitous #motis #trafiklab #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #gnomemaps

Got a bit further on the departures/arrivals view feature. Now ...

2026-05-21T20:08:03Z

Got a bit further on the departures/arrivals view feature.

Now shows a toggle group with tranportation modes available for the selected station/stop (when there are multiple modes served at the location) allowing filtering what to show.

#gnomemaps #gnome #transitous #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #mapstodon

Made some more progress on the implementation of the ...

2026-05-07T21:34:00Z

Made some more progress on the implementation of the “stoptimes” API from MOTIS in Maps.
Now actually showing departures (or arrivals) in the place details when clicking on a “public transit-type“ place (station etc.), when there's data available in Transitous.
The rows still only shows the transit mode icon and line number/name (e.g. missing time, destination and so on…)

#gnomemaps #gnome #motis #transitous #PublicTransport #PublicTransit

Cool that Transitous now has schedule data for transit in ...

2026-04-16T20:00:16Z

Cool that Transitous now has schedule data for transit in Tbilisi, Georgia. In a couple of weeks it's exactly 15 years ago I was there on a work trip just about a month after started working for PrimeKey!

Would be kinda nice to visit again.

(I wanted to get a trip with one of the gondola (aerial way) lines for the screenshot, but got no results for that (I think they should be in the timetable data)

#transitous #tbilisi #georgia #sakhartvelo #gnomemaps #PublicTransit

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2026-04-12T19:46:36Z

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Experimenting with showing platform information for the public ...

2026-04-02T20:41:59Z

Experimenting with showing platform information for the public transit itineraries in Maps (when available from datasets).
Maybe these labels spelling out "Departing from…" and so on are a bit "wordy"…

#gnomemaps #transitous #PublicTransit #motis

Started implementing support for public transit delays in Maps ...

2026-03-25T20:50:36Z

Started implementing support for public transit delays in Maps

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/917
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/merge_requests/619

#gnomemaps #transitous #mapstodon #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #realtimedata #motis #GtfsRT

Rolled the releases for GNOME 50 today (a bit early, but I'll ...

2026-03-13T10:05:52Z

Rolled the releases for GNOME 50 today (a bit early, but I'll be busy all day tomorrow):

Maps 50.0
libshumate 1.6.0

and also a (small) bugfix 49.5 on the (old) stable branch.

Didn't yet do a write-up about the new stuff, guess that'll have to be done sometime soonish, too… 😎

#gnome #gnomemaps #mapstodon #gnome50 #libshumate

Just rolled beta releases of Maps and libshumate (50.beta and ...

2026-01-28T21:29:50Z

Just rolled beta releases of Maps and libshumate (50.beta and 1.6.beta) for the upcoming GNOME 50 release, and also stable releases (49.4, 48.9, and 1.5.3, 1.4.1 respectively) before traveling to Brussels for FOSDEM tommorow evening.

One improvement in 50.beta consists of showing more text from the article extract from Wikipedia in “desktop mode” when there is more space.

#gnomemaps #libshumate #mapstodon #Gnome

Just tagged Maps 50.alpha and libshumate 1.6.alpha for GNOME 50: ...

2026-01-03T09:18:28Z

Just tagged Maps 50.alpha and libshumate 1.6.alpha for GNOME 50:

Containing, among others, the new sidebar redesign, public transit journey redesign, using Transitous for all public transit routingm, and porting of UI templates to Blueprint for Maps.

And for libshumate the option to compile without the vector renderer has been removed, the vector renderer has gained support for "global-state" expressions.

#gnomemaps #libshumate #libadwaita #BlueprintCompiler #mapstodon #transitous

thanks! 😎

2026-01-02T09:32:03Z

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thanks! 😎

This sounds kinda weird, but apparantly half a century today! ...

2026-01-02T09:13:14Z

This sounds kinda weird, but apparantly half a century today!

#50yearbirthday

And first stab of fitting the route planner in a bottom sheet in ...

2025-12-01T22:52:25Z

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And first stab of fitting the route planner in a bottom sheet in narrow mode. It still is not connected to the "show routeplanner" button, so for have to open it using the GTK inspector. And it should probably use some more space…

Finally got momentum on the redesigned I planned for Maps for ...

2025-12-01T22:09:35Z

Finally got momentum on the redesigned I planned for Maps for GNOME 50, redesigning the sidebar a bit (taking a bit inspiration from Nucleus) with the aim of ultimatly it use an AdwMultiLayoutView using a bottom sheet in narrow/mobile mode. And showing place info in there as well…

Right now in a state of a bit "first break it, then fix it"… 😄

#Gnome #gnomemaps #libadwaita #redesign #responsivedesign #mapstodon

Just applied for renewal of my GNOME Foundation membership. And ...

2025-09-27T07:52:47Z

Just applied for renewal of my GNOME Foundation membership. And realized it's been 10 years since I became a foundation member!

Time flies when having fun! 😎🔟:gnome:

#GNOME #gnomefoundation #10years #Anniversary #foss #freedesktop

Blog post about some of the new stuff for GNOME Maps 49. ...

2025-09-09T20:46:00Z

Blog post about some of the new stuff for GNOME Maps 49.

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/09/maps-and-gnome-49.html

#gnome #maps #gnomemaps #libshumate #mapstodon #openstreetmap

Considering as a change (before the UI freeze for GNOME 49 in ...

2025-07-28T12:46:54Z

Considering as a change (before the UI freeze for GNOME 49 in early August) toning down the colors of labels for cities and towns in Maps.

Screenshots showing after the considered change in contrast to the current looks.

What do you think, is this an improvement? (I believe it would be more in line with how e.g. labels are presented in the default Adwaita GTK theme)

#Gnome #gnomemaps #mapstodon #UI #mapstyle

New (Northern hemisphere) summer blog post on news in Maps ...

2025-06-18T20:57:45Z

New (Northern hemisphere) summer blog post on news in Maps

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/06/midsommer-maps.html

Covering some new features, a bug fix by James Westman (npub13kl…rq5g), and a new feature where I did some live user testing by [@dmark](https://hachyderm.io/@dmark ) 😎

#Gnome #gnomemaps #mapstodon #openstreetmap #Transit

Experimenting with showing custom icons for stations. Inspired a ...

2025-04-07T20:07:02Z

Experimenting with showing custom icons for stations. Inspired a bit from our highway shield rendered (derived from OpenStreetMap Americana)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/tree/wip/mlundblad/station-icons

It's making use of the "network:wikidata" OSM tag.

Currently rendering these icons in map view itself is not tested (this needs an extra addition to our planetiler generator for the vector tiles to be run in the next import).

#gnomemaps #gnome #Transit #tunnelbana #mapstodon #openstreetmap

There has been some controversy around naming of certain bodies ...

2025-04-01T06:45:07Z

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

#mapstodon #gnome #gnomemaps #Q2_2025

Just rolled the stable releases for GNOME 48 GNOME Maps 48: ...

2025-03-15T08:46:04Z

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 😀

#gnome #gnomemaps #libshumate #gnome48 #mapstodon #openstreetmap #transitous #fika

Blog post on Maps and the upcoming GNOME 48 release ...

2025-03-12T21:19:35Z

Blog post on Maps and the upcoming GNOME 48 release

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/03/maps-and-gnome-48.html

#gnomemaps #gnome #mapstodon #transitous

New blogpost: ...

2025-01-28T21:10:43Z

New blogpost:

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/01/pre-fosdem-maps-wrap-up.html

#gnome #gnomemaps #transitous #transitous #beacondb

After some trial-and-error I finally managed to wrap my around ...

2025-01-08T22:10:18Z

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")

#gnomemaps #gnome #gtk #gsk #mapstodon

One test with showing walking times for each itinerary, and the ...

2024-12-29T13:18:26Z

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One test with showing walking times for each itinerary, and the timings for the walking legs with "min" spelled out

Experimenting with showing walking leg durations (in minutes) for ...

2024-12-27T22:30:03Z

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?).

#gnome #gnomemaps #transit

Micropolis (the unbranded FOSS version of the original SimCity ...

2024-12-26T12:11:17Z

Micropolis (the unbranded FOSS version of the original SimCity from 1989) is now available as Flatpak:

https://flathub.org/apps/com.donhopkins.Micropolis

Still quite fun to play! 😎

#simcity #micropolis #flatpak #Flathub #SimulationGames

It's time for the traditional yearly wrap-up blog post! ...

2024-12-19T20:50:10Z

It's time for the traditional yearly wrap-up blog post!

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2024/12/christmas-winter-end-of-year-holidays.html

🎄🎅🗺️

#gnome #gnomemaps #mapstodon #openstreetmap #transitous

Just tagged and uploaded the 47.2 dot release of GNOME Maps. This ...

2024-11-23T09:30:31Z

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

#gnome #gnomemaps #mapstondon

New blog post about the upcoming #GNOME Maps 47.0 ...

2024-09-07T13:51:02Z

New blog post about the upcoming #GNOME Maps 47.0

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2024/09/maps-and-gnome-47.html

#mapstodon #gnomemaps #gnome #transitous #openstreetmap