A somewhat recurring problem I encounter in things I work on is the need to compute simplified geographic polygons, or more specifically, simplified hulls of...| www.volkerkrause.eu
We are just three weeks away from KDE’s annual Akademy conference, time to get going with the preparations.| www.volkerkrause.eu
Since the last update two months ago KDE Itinerary got support for manually added train and bus trips, a more flexible alternative connection search, a new d...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Last weekend I attended the Transitous Hack Weekend in Berlin. This was the first time we ran such an event for Transitous, and with quite a few more people ...| www.volkerkrause.eu
When we were at TU Graz for the KDE Plasma Sprint and Grazer Linuxtage a few weeks ago the question came up how to practically map such buildings in OpenStre...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Since the last update two month ago we added new import options, public transport mode preferences and many more improvements to KDE Itinerary, and it got fe...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Since the last update two month ago KDE Itinerary gained support for managing discount program memberships and flat rate tickets, gives you more control over...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Last week I wrote about train station and airport maps for KDE Itinerary. One important challenge for deploying this is how to get the necessary OpenStreetMa...| www.volkerkrause.eu
I had mentioned a number of new Transitous features in a previous post. As those largely depend on the corresponding data being available, here’s an overview...| www.volkerkrause.eu
The past two months since the last update have been busy again around KDE Itinerary, with additional train and bus trip editing capabilities, a new departures view, OpenRailwayMap integration and a ton of new features in Transitous.| Volker Krause
As hinted here before, in October this year there will be the first dedicated conference for the Open Transport community, and the Call for Participation for...| www.volkerkrause.eu
On July 12/13th we’ll have the first Transitous Hack Weekend in Berlin, Germany.| Volker Krause
Last week I attended the Plasma (Mobile) Sprint and the following Grazer Linuxtage 2025 in Graz, Austria.| Volker Krause
Since the 24.12 KDE Gear release we are shipping the client-side push notification infrastructure for applications such as NeoChat and Tokodon. For 25.08 thi...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Last week I attended another OSM hack weekend, hosted by Geofabrik in Karlsruhe. Unsurprisingly my focus there has been on topics related to our use of OSM d...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Since the last summary two months ago KDE Itinerary got a new top-level navigation bar, more editing capabilities, more export and sharing options and is fin...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Recently I wrote about options for getting OSM indoor map data for KDE Itinerary’s work-in-progress indoor map feature for train stations and airports. The m...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Here’s an overview of recent work around the Android platform support for KDE Frameworks and KDE applications. Since the last update there have been improvem...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Last weekend I once more attended the biannual OSM Hack Weekend hosted by Geofabrik in Karlsruhe, Germany, discussing and working on things related to Itiner...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Since the last update two month ago KDE Itinerary got UI redesigns in a few areas and a number of important improvements for accessing public transport infor...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Barely back from 38C3 preparations for another huge event started, FOSDEM 2025, taking place in two weeks in Brussels, Belgium.| www.volkerkrause.eu
In the two month since the previous summary KDE Itinerary got a new trip map view, per-trip statistics and better Android integration, and we have been prepa...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Here’s an overview of recent work around Android platform support for KDE Frameworks and KDE applications, most of which is a direct result of discussions an...| www.volkerkrause.eu
This months has been so densely packed with conferences that I’m lagging behind on reporting on them here. So you get two in one post now, the Nextcloud Comm...| www.volkerkrause.eu
This week I attended the 2024 edition of KDE Akademy in Würzburg, Germany.| www.volkerkrause.eu
In less than a week this year’s Akademy starts in Würzburg, Germany, and as usual I’m very much looking forward to that :)| www.volkerkrause.eu
With Akademy 2024 hosted in a venue with OSM indoor mapping, what happens if we put KDE’s conference companion app Kongress and Itinerary’s train station ind...| www.volkerkrause.eu
A week ago I attended the 22. Gulaschprogrammiernacht (GPN22) in Karlsruhe, Germany. That’s a bit of a smaller version of the Chaos Communication Congress, a...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Since the last summary of what happened around KDE Itinerary two month ago we shipped Transitous support, integrated a new import staging area, enabled creat...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Last week I attended KDE’s joint sprint on accessibility, sustainability and automation hosted at MBition in Berlin. Having had little opportunity to sit dow...| www.volkerkrause.eu
It has been two exciting months since the last update on KDE Itinerary again, with new vehicle and train coach amenity information, DST changes in the timeli...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Last week I attended this year’s FOSSGIS Konferenz in Hamburg, Germany, focusing especially on topics around indoor navigation and public transport.| www.volkerkrause.eu
Last week I attended the bi-annual OSM Hack Weekend in Karlsruhe again, hosted by Geofabrik, focusing on indoor routing as well as Transitous.| www.volkerkrause.eu
Two weeks ago I showed a screenshot of initial support for the MOTIS routing engine in KTrip in my FOSDEM 2024 report. Driven by the Transitous work this is ...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Last weekend I attended FOSDEM as part of KDE’s presence there, gave a talk about semantic data extraction of travel-related emails, met old long-time friend...| www.volkerkrause.eu
A lot has happened since the last update on KDE Itinerary, with the transition to Qt 6 finally completed, public transport coverage extended to more countrie...| www.volkerkrause.eu
It’s been two busy months for KDE Itinerary again since the last summary, with new journey timeline entries, public transport arrival search, nearby amenity ...| www.volkerkrause.eu
With the first Qt 6 based release of KDE software rapidly approaching, there’s still one thing that has been lagging behind in porting so far, working Androi...| www.volkerkrause.eu
Doing HTTP operations with Qt is relatively straightforward, but there are also a few pitfalls, unexpected default settings and low-hanging performance impro...| www.volkerkrause.eu