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author | Paolo Angelelli <paolo.angelelli@qt.io> | 2018-05-04 14:16:10 +0200 |
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committer | Paolo Angelelli <paolo.angelelli@qt.io> | 2018-06-25 11:47:07 +0000 |
commit | 350708b2027b433b02a6ec608020e33a34630750 (patch) | |
tree | 1653f075743770372f7ba0f0cbb0a5becc9071e0 /src/location/doc | |
parent | 05719fedab5b052c433b5137fa63e5a1136a84e6 (diff) | |
download | qtlocation-350708b2027b433b02a6ec608020e33a34630750.tar.gz |
Document potential ssl dependency in OSM provider
Task-number: QTBUG-68086
Change-Id: Idce724314777f0edc0ffefcea6cc838757800067
Reviewed-by: Denis Shienkov <denis.shienkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Blasche <alexander.blasche@qt.io>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/location/doc')
-rw-r--r-- | src/location/doc/src/plugins/osm.qdoc | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/location/doc/src/plugins/osm.qdoc b/src/location/doc/src/plugins/osm.qdoc index 9374f207..649d3bed 100644 --- a/src/location/doc/src/plugins/osm.qdoc +++ b/src/location/doc/src/plugins/osm.qdoc @@ -43,10 +43,14 @@ available under the \l {http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl}{Open Datab The Open Street Map geo services plugin can be loaded by using the plugin key "osm". -\note Since Qt 5.6.2, the available map types offered by this plugin may change without notice depending on the -actual availability of each provider. To prevent these changes, either a different geo service plugin should be used, or the plugin +\note Since Qt 5.6.2, the available map types offered by this plugin may change (or be removed) +without notice depending on the actual availability of a viable openly accessible provider for each type. +This also implies that providers serving tiles over HTTPS may be used. +This becomes relevant when using the OSM plugin on platforms, such as Android, for which SSL support is not built into Qt by default. +To prevent these changes, either a different geo service plugin should be used, or the plugin parameter \e osm.mapping.providersrepository.address should be set to a user-specified repository, in order to take full control over (and accept \b responsibility for) selecting the provider that is used for each map type. +Since Qt 5.9.6 the default nominatim endpoint, used for geocoding and places, has also changed to HTTPS-only. \section1 Parameters |