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tommi1hirvonen / ExifNotes

Exif Notes is an Android application that let's you quickly make structured notes in the field when doing film photography. It has about 1,500 active installations through Google Play.
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Support for OpenStreetMaps #48

Open sarmong opened 8 months ago

sarmong commented 8 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am not using Google Services on my phone and thus cannot use the location feature of this great app.

Describe the solution you'd like Completely move to OSM and not use Google Maps.

Describe alternatives you've considered If Google Services are not found, fall back to OSM. And have a checkbox in settings if a user wants to switch to OSM having Google Services installed.

tommi1hirvonen commented 8 months ago

Related to #32

sarmong commented 8 months ago

Yes, however, my issue is coming from the place of not being able to use the location feature at all and not just desire to not have proprietary code there (although I think of it as beneficial too).

You mentioned that it will require a lot of effort to get rid of Google. But what about just adding rudimentary OSM support in addition to Google? Pretty much just selecting a point on the map and retrieve the coordinates.

I wish I could help, but I never worked with Kotlin. Though, I can try to investigate the OSM API and what is needed to make it work.

DKMellow commented 2 months ago

A workaround I am using on my degoogled phone is that I copy the coordinates of my current location from OrganicMaps and then when adding the location in ExifNotes I paste the coordinates in the search field and it can successfully find the and add the location to the metadata.

Hope this helps for anyone out there looking for a solution!