Early works on a generic map application for Gnome or Ubuntu. Gnome has an application like this in it's pipeline, in early design phase. I just wanted to see how far I could get on my own. And then I saw this Ubuntu application showdown a bit late.
This application uses Mapquest for search and directions search, the open API using Openstreetmap data. Maps are standard tiles from Openstreetmap. I'm a mapper myself, and I think there is room for an application like this.
It will also show GPX tracks if you drag them to the Ubuntu launcher or to an open program.
When viewing results, in most cases a single click in the result listing will highlight the result. For searches, a double click will save the location to 'My places'. During directions search, a double click in the results will set proper locations to be able to search for directions.
This is only a start… localization, icons, save 'my places' and drag and drop from 'my places' to direction search fields, are planned.
Run it with quickly run from the project folder, having quickly installed. I will fix a runnable main without quickly pretty soon.
https://launchpad.net/~sigurdga/+archive/maps
Contributions are very welcome.