report #1: first two weeks

Welcome to my first report on my work for GSOC 2014 for Gnome!

Overview

I'm going to add via points and alternative paths support to maps (see the good news).
As my main target, I'm going first to focus on via points, my plans are:

1. Change the GraphHopper interface.
2. Add new markers for start, via and end points. The new markers will be selectable and draggable and the route path will change while dragging them. Design will come up in the next days.
3. Finish the work on the new sidebar (still in the work in progress branch).

I already have some mockups for the sidebar and I'll post new markers mockups as soon as they're available. Thanks Andreas!

Sidebar mockups

 After completing via points, I'll focus on alternative paths (plans to come).

Code base

First of all, I had a look to the branch wip/routing2 on which I'll base my code. Despite it's still a work in progress, you can already successfully calculate and show the path between two locations. Thanks Mattias!
I also tested that actually Champlain allows to select and drag markers with few lines of code.

A good news for gnome maps user

I'm going to add alternative paths to maps!
As you maybe know, the maps routing feature is based on GraphHopper.
After a chat with Peter Karich, GH main developer, I discovered that via points is already in GH and it will need at most some optimization. This is a really good news because I'll have time to work also on alternative paths (that needs more work on GH).

User location bubble bug fixed

I also worked for fixing a small bug related to the user location bubble that couldn't be closed.

This bubble should be closeable

Next days schedule

My plan for next few days are:

1. Change the GraphHopper interface for allowing via points in the query.
2. Create some example for testing the code.
3. Show via point in the map, creating new markers draggable and selectable.