Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.26am, Friday, 8th February 2008]

I did play with this for JOSM using the Javascript stuff that recent versions of Java have, but never got very far.

The problem is that the API doesn't have things like "give me an image for this area" or "give me tiles for this area", but rather "render a map of this area in this

Author: bart[at]vanhauwaert.org
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.22pm, Saturday, 9th February 2008]

Technically the best way would be to wait for Qt 4.4 (out Q1 2008 I hope) which would include WebKit. That would allow us to load up and display pages including those from yahoo maps within Merkaartor. To get the content as a backdrop I see to possibilities

A custom QNetworkManager where we can filter all network traffic and filter all images.

Rendering the Webkit widget to a QPixmap and then crop and scale to the area we are interested in.

Author: koying
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.33am, Sunday, 10th February 2008]

Yes, waiting fot Qt 4.4/webkit seems the soundest solution.

Waiting for the release, I can still make some progress using the technology preview.

Author: koying
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.25pm, Tuesday, 1st April 2008]

(In [7236]) ADD : Initial commit of legal Yahoo background maps (refs #676)

Author: koying
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.27am, Wednesday, 16th April 2008]

(In [7378]) ADD : link to working webkit - part 1 - .pro (refs #676)
ADD : Merkaartor icon (closes #832)
FIX : French translation

Author: koying
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.30am, Wednesday, 16th April 2008]

(In [7379]) ADD : link to working webkit - part 2 - actual link (refs #676)

Author: koying
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.30pm, Sunday, 1st June 2008]

I think I can close this one, as the webkit seems to work reasonably well