Satellite imagery

[crayfellow]

Nicely done! Have you run into an issue where the satellite imagery does not appear? Everything else works. For us it is consistent on Windows 8.1. I tried simply showing maps.google.com in the QWebView and it did the same thing, switch over to Satellite and it is blank with everything else working. So I know it is not exclusive to showing the map using local HTML from Qt resources.

I tried other user agents and checked the Inspector. The requests for the tiles go out, and get a 200 OK response with a non-zero content length, but somehow the JPEG's are not available.

cheers,
Patrick

[crayfellow]

I've got this sorted! I just needed the Qt/mingw482_32/plugins/imageformats folder in my distribution, containing qjpeg.dll. So it was indeed loading them, but had no way to decode them. All is well now and I hope this is helpful to someone else.

[uranusjr]

Well done! I honestly never used satellite view except when I put up the initial demo. It would have taken me quite some time to find the cause. I’ll add a note in the readme (with a link to this issue) so that people can find it more easily in the future.

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