What is QMapControl?

Based on the original QMapControl project (http://www.medieninf.de/qmapcontrol), this is an updated version of QMapControl that support Qt5.

QMapControl is a mapping library that provides a QWidget interface that you can use in your own applications.

Features:

• Maps: Supports WMS and 'Slippy' tile map services.
• Geometries: Add points, circles, lines, images and other QWidgets.
• Layers: Maps and/or geometries can be added to a layer, which can be shown/hidden as required.

Prerequisites

Compiler

• A modern C++ compiler that fully supports the C++11 standard:
  • Tested with GCC 4.8.2, Clang 3.4 and MSVC 11 (VS 2012).

External Dependencies

• Qt 5 (http://qt-project.org)
  • Tested with Qt 5.2.1.

Optional External Dependencies

• GDAL (http://www.gdal.org)
  • Supports: ESRI Shapefile
  • To enable this feature, define QMC_GDAL
    • You can specify the include path for GDAL with the environment variable QMC_GDAL_INC
    • You can specify the library path for GDAL with the environment variable QMC_GDAL_LIB
  • Tested with GDAL 1.10.1

Internal Dependencies

• QProgressIndicator (https://github.com/mojocorp/QProgressIndicator)
  • Version: Commit hash - 0b54d4d
  • License type: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3

Build

Run the following commands from the root directory to build QMapControl (replace make with nmake for MSVC):

qmake prefix=INSTALL_LOCATION
make

To install QMapControl, run:

make install

Note: INSTALL_LOCATION must be an absolute path to the install directory required.